Article: The Amazing Lichen and How To Photograph Them.(Brief Article)

Article: ACCUMULATION OF SOME HEAVY METALS IN LICHENS IN GIRESUN CITY, ...
Ekológia;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... properties of some foliose and crustose lichen species were studied in a polluted ... Cu > Pb in the studied lichen species. Fruticose Cladonta species ... occurred or not in the studied lichen species in terms of heavy metal accumulation ...

Article: The influence of tree age and microhabitat quality on the ...
Journal of Vegetation Science;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... 1976). In Sweden, ca. 300 lichen species are known to inhabit oak trees ... presence/absence of eight crustose lichen species on 165 oaks was assessed and ... their cover on the target lichen species. We also examined how the ...

Article: Studies from University of British Columbia add new findings in ...
Ecology, Environment & Conservation;  March 13, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Columbia. The researchers concluded: Conservation of lichens inhabiting wood requires greater attention to crustose lichen species and the development of conservation strategies that look beyond numbers and volumes of dead wood and consider ...

Article: Arboreal Mite Communities on Epiphytic Lichens of the Adirondack ...
Northeastern Naturalist;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... substrates, including bare bark, the crustose lichen Pertusaria velata, and three foliose ... communities differed among bark, crustose lichen, and foliose lichens, but not among ... arboreal substrates: bare bark, the crustose lichen Pertusaria velata (Turner) NyI ...

Article: Findings from E. Stockerworgotter and co-authors provide new ...
Biotech Week;  November 11, 2009 ;     655 words ... ... Stockerworgotter and colleagues published their study in Phytochemistry Reviews (Intraspecific chemical variation within the crustose lichen genus Haematomma: anthraquinone production in selected cultured mycobionts as a response to stress and nutrient supply ...

Article: Plant research helps keep Baxter State Park forever wild
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  August 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... lichen in Baxter State Park, she jokes about some of the rare finds. But her punch lines are a little tough to get. "Crustose Lichen is our biggest news so far. Most people don't care. To most, it looks like a smudge on a rock," Dibble said with ...

Article: Scientists at University of Lisbon target ecotoxicology.(Report)
Ecology, Environment & Conservation;  October 23, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... was to compare the performance of two lichen species-Xanthoria parietina and Ramalina ... Fs found in samples of these two lichen species were compared. R. canariensis presented ... found in other foliose and fruticose lichen species," wrote S. Augusto and colleagues ...