Lange, OL/ Green, TGA/ Reichenberger, H/ Meyer, A 1996: Photosynthetic depression at high thallus water contents in lichens: concurrent use of gas exchange and fluorescence techniques with a cyanobacterial and a green algal Peltigera species. - Botanica Acta109: 43-50. [RLL List # 164 / Rec.# 11019] Keywords: CO2 EXCHANGE/ PHOTOSYNTHESIS/ WATER CONTENT/ WATER RELATIONS
Abstract: 7 fig. [Study of net photosynthesis (NP) and water content (WC) in Peltigera leucophlebia and P. neckeri. "Our results show that, for these lichens, the depression in NP at high WC is a real fall in photosynthetic rate of the photobionts and is not due to recycling of CO2."]