Fabiane Lucheta

TL;DR: Based on an updated phylogeny using the ITS fungal barcoding locus, Cora is now recognize 189 taxa in a genus that until recently was considered to represent a single species; including this contribution, 92 of these are formally recognized, including five taxa based on historical names or collections that have not been sequenced.

TL;DR: Growth forms as well as some reproductive trait states were the most suitable lichen traits to be used as indicators of forest succession in the southern edge of the Atlantic Rainforest, confirming the main hypothesis that the functional structure of the lichen communities responds to structural changes along a forest regeneration gradient.

TL;DR: The objective of this work was to select lichen functional traits and functional groups that can be used as ecological indicators of the effects of urbanization, with emphasis in the Southern subtropics, where this had never been done.

TL;DR: It was confirmed that air pollution was a key driver for lichen diversity and changes in lichen community composition and vitality were very significantly related to air pollution and integrated the effect of multiple stressors, thus being powerful ecological indicators of air pollution in the subtropics.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated changes in lichen species composition and functional patterns along a gradient of urbanization in southern Brazil, and showed that urbanization has a strong influence on lichen communities.