Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

26 Dec, 05 AM - 01 Jan, 06 AM

An assessment of lichen species diversity at Big Creek has implications for conservation efforts and overall biodiversity. Aside from providing general knowledge on the lichens of a pristine ecosystem, information on available species has application in studies of plant communities, environmental variation, and air pollution. Construction of an herbarium collection representing the available species at Big Creek will serve many purposes. Potentially rare and endemic species, along with the rest of the collection, will be available for viewing at the UCSC museum of natural history. Specimens will be preserved for future studies such as those regarding diversity, air pollution, and evolution. Lichen species will be collected along a series of 20-m transects throughout the area for assessment of species diversity. Species will be taken back to the lab for identification using morphological and chemical traits. Specimens will be accessioned into the UCSC Museum of Natural History. I will also construct a database containing all of the species' information (morphology, chemistry, photo- and micrographs) which will be used to generate an online, synoptic key for the species at Big Creek.

Visit #23743 @Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

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Under Project # 22927 | Research

Lichen species diversity assessment at Big Creek

research_assistant - University of California, Santa Cruz

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Justin Shaffer Dec 26, 2010 - Jan 1, 2011 (7 days)

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Whale Point Researcher Cabin 1 Dec 26, 2010 - Jan 1, 2011