Lichens to Biomonitor the Environment

• Main Authors: Shukla, Vertika (Author), D.K., Upreti (Author), Bajpai, Rajesh (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Environment.; Ecology.; Plant science.; Botany.; Pollution.; Air pollution.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Pollution, general.; Plant Sciences.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.

The book embodies the detailed account about unique symbionts i.e. LICHENS in ecosystem monitoring. The first chapter deals with unique characteristics features of lichens which facilitate their survival in extreme climates and makes them an ideal organism for ecosystem monitoring. Biosynthesis of s...

Table of Contents:

•  1. Introduction
• 2. Secondary metabolites and its isolation & characterization
• 3. Selection of biomonitoring species
• 4. Toxitolerant lichens in different lichenogeographical regions of India
• 5. Ecosystem monitoring
• 6. Management and conservational approaches
• References
• 7. Glossary.