Lichen Biomonitoring from Valley to Alpine in Central and Southern California

All the datasets used in Kovasi's (2022) masters thesis. Chapter 2: The datasets are elemental concentrations for 25 elements from samples of the saxicolous lichens Umbilicaria phaea (n = 51), Rhizoplaca melanophthalma (n = 20), and the epiphytic lichen Letharia vulpina (n = 16) from the southern Sierra Nevada and San Bernardino Mountains of California. Lichen samples were collected between 2013 and 2019 at 31 plots between 180 and 3330 m of elevation. There are accompanying data of environmental variables. Chapter 3: The datasets are epiphytic lichen community data from 52 plots from central California and a simulated dataset with known underlying determinants of community structure. There are accompanying data of environmental variables.