Article: Condition, potential recovery rate, and productivity of lichen (Cladonia spp.) ranges in the Finnish Reindeer Management Area.

(Received 20 November 1998; accepted in revised form 3 December 1999)ABSTRACT. The focus of the work was to investigate dependency between reindeer density and lichen (Cladonia spp.) ranges in the Finnish semidomesticated reindeer management area. Secondly, we formed a model on the recovery rate of ungrazed woodland lichen ranges (29 sites) after forest fires to evaluate the potential productivity and time needed for Finnish lichen ranges to recover at optimal production. During 1974-95, 59% of the variation in mean semidomesticated reindeer density (range: 0.7-3.0 reindeer/km 2 of the total land area) among the reindeer herding districts in Finland was explained by the ...

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