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Use of bomb-14C to investigate the growth and carbon turnover rates of a crustose lichen

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Mark H Garnett, and Tom Bradwell, Use of bomb-14C to investigate the growth and carbon turnover rates of a crustose lichen: .

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The reliability of lichenometric dating is dependent on a good understanding of lichen growth rates. The growth rate of lichens can be determined from direct measurement of growing lichens or indirect methods by measuring lichens growing on surfaces of known age, although there are limitations to both approaches. Radiocarbon (14C) analysis has previously been used in only a handful of studies to determine lichen growth rates of two species from a small area of North America. These studies have produced mixed results; a small amount of carbon turnover appears to occur in one of the species (Caloplaca spp.) previously investigated introducing uncertainty in the growth rate, while much higher carbon cycling occurred in another (Rhizocarpon [...]

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