Map of locations and lichen diversity in the City of Košice. No. 1-32 represent locations as in Tab. 1. Changing colours of the heatmap represent the number of lichen species at each location with blue being the highest. Each colour represents no. of species on a site: 31-26 dark blue, 25-20 light blue, 19-13 green, 12-7 yellow and 6-0 red.

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... are several major pollution sources in the city area, as indicated in Fig. 1. The main sources of pollution are represented by nearby iron and steel plant southward from the centre and the coal heating power station located directly in the southern part of the city (both act as sources of emission of solid pollutants, SO2 and NOx) ( Hančuľák et al. ...

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... GPS coordinates in WGS-84 system of the centres of locations were later determined using mapy.cz website. The heatmap used in Fig. 1 was created in Microsoft Power BI as a simple visualization of number of spiecies present at each location. The collected specimens are stored at the herbarium of Botanical Garden of Pavol J. Šafárik University in Košice (acronym KO). Specimens were identified by standard microscopy (including UV light) under dissecting and light ...

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... lichen diversity was low near the sources of pollution and in the southern part of the city, intermediate in residential areas, parks, and forest parks and highest in the recreational area on the edge of the forest (Fig. 1). Oligotrophic species were found mostly on the north-eastern border of the city ( Fig. 2A) and loc. 4. On the other hand, nitrophilous species were frequent and widely distributed ( ...