Unraveling the interplay between phylogeny and chemical niches in epiphytic macrolichens.

ABSTRACT: This study aims to elucidate the connection between the phylogeny of epiphytic macrolichens and their chemical niches. We analyzed published floristic and environmental data from 90 canopies of Picea glauca x engelmannii across various forest settings in British Columbia. To explore the concordance between a principal coordinates analysis of the cladistic distance matrix and a global non-metric multidimensional scaling of the ecological distance matrix, we used Procrustean randomization tests. The findings uncover a robust association between large-scale macrolichen phylogeny and canopy throughfall chemistry. The high calcium-scores of the studied species effectively distinguished members of the Peltigerales from those of the Lecanorales, although parameters linked with Ca such as Mn, Mg,

SUBMITTER: Gauslaa Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11625070 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature