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Arthropods on solitary tree trunks: microclimatic opportunities, use of climatic gradients and of microhabitats and the effects on a preferably grazed lichen

Preamble

PhD thesis university of Kiel, Germany, 1996

Publications:

• Prinzing, A. 1997. Spatial and temporal use of microhabitats as a key strategy for the colonization of tree bark by Entomobrya nivalis L. (Collembola: Entomobryidae). In: Stork, N. E., Adis, J., Didham, R. K. (eds): Canopy Arthropods. Chapman & Hall, London: 453-476.
• Prinzing, A. 1998. Wind-acclimated thallus morphogenesis in a lichen (Evernia prunastri, Parmeliaceae) probably favored by grazing disturbances. American Journal of Botany (in press).

Related:

• Prinzing, A. & Wirtz, H.-P. 1997. The epiphytic lichen, Evernia prunastri L., as a habitat for arthropods: shelter from desiccation, food-limitation and indirect mutualism. In: Stork, N. E., Adis, J., Didham, R. K. (eds): Canopy Arthropods. Chapman & Hall, London: 477-494.

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Overview

1. Introduction
2. Material
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Summary
6. Zusammenfassung
7. Acknowledgements
8. Literature
9. Table of contents

Andreas Prinzing
1998.10.27