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July 26, 2023 — All plants and lichens listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act are sensitive to climate change but there are few plans in place to address this threat directly, according to new ...
Feb. 1, 2021 — Scientists thought that reindeer lichens (moss-looking organisms that form a major part of reindeer diets) reproduced mainly asexually by cloning themselves. But it turns out, reindeer lichens are ...
Jan. 14, 2021 — Scientists have found a new species of fleshy verdigris lichen, thanks to DNA analysis of museum specimens. Misidentified by its original collectors, the lichen is only known from 32 specimens ...
May 11, 2021 — Lichen communities may take decades -- and in some cases up to a century -- to fully return to chaparral ecosystems after ...
Feb. 15, 2022 — To learn how lichens might be able to adapt to climate change, researchers examined the evolutionary history of the algae that's a part of 7,000 kinds of lichens. By studying genetic ...
Mar. 18, 2021 — Some of the newly described lichen species from the Micarea genus may be unique to the biodiversity hotspot that is the Taita Hills in Kenya. The area may contain even more lichen species yet to be ...
Oct. 25, 2023 — The key to bringing global net-zero goals into reach may be algae, say researchers. Studies show impressive success of certain microalgae varieties to remove CO2 from the atmosphere then break it ...
Feb. 22, 2021 — The species diversity and relationships of lichens in the genus Leptogium, which are often very difficult to identify to species, were assessed on the basis of DNA analyses using a large dataset ...
Oct. 5, 2023 — Acoels have been found to host a wide diversity of symbiotic, photosynthetic ...
July 1, 2021 — Scientists resurrected the genus Philozoon by using modern technologies to thoroughly characterize two of the species of algae that biologist Patrick Geddes had investigated in the mid-to-late 19th ...
