Sentences with phrase «as lichens»

Up to 20 % of fungal species are thought to live as lichens.

Researchers were surprised to find that many of today's free - wheeling fungi are descended from species that lived in symbiosis with other organisms as lichens.

There are a variety of ways in which cryptic animals, such as this lichen - mimicking katydid (right), avoid detection through camouflage.

Deciduous shrubs like dwarf birch and green alder are displacing ground cover such as lichen and moss.

Not exact matches

Is negative space and lichen the only way to succeed as a modern chef?

I watch her as she tells me the details of how she got up the tree, her legs are dangling and swinging freely, she is running her hands along the tree bark and picking at the moss and lichen, she reaches out to break a small twig from its branch.

On Thursday, the green and lush display house was filled with the roar of high - powered vacuum cleaners as workers meticulously sucked out shards of glass from the fronds of each fern, the tops of lichen - covered rocks and in the dirt that anchors the foliage.

Inland dwellers took advantage of caribou feeding on tundra mosses, lichens, and plants too tough for humans to stomach (though predigested vegetation in the animals» paunches became dinner as well).

This lichen will be named as a separate Cora species.

LICHEN RECOUNT A tropical lichen that biologists long knew as Dictyonema glabratum turns out to be one of at least 100 different species that had been lumped together under that name, DNA studies nowLICHEN RECOUNT A tropical lichen that biologists long knew as Dictyonema glabratum turns out to be one of at least 100 different species that had been lumped together under that name, DNA studies nowlichen that biologists long knew as Dictyonema glabratum turns out to be one of at least 100 different species that had been lumped together under that name, DNA studies now show.

The lichen Bryoria tortuosa is yellow and produces a toxic substance known as vulpinic acid while B. fremontii — made up of the same fungus and alga — is dark brown and produces no such acid.

The discovery that specific yeasts act as third symbiotic partners in lichens began with an investigation into why two lichen species seemed genetically identical but had distinctive attributes.

«Yeast emerges as hidden third partner in lichen symbiosis.»

For example, the pesticide lindane, used in agriculture as well as to treat head lice, did not accumulate in fish but did build up in Canadian wolves that had fed on caribou, which in turn had been eating lichen.

Fringed and fuzzy, or as slick as a coat of paint, lichens are mosaics of fungi partnered with algae or cyanobacteria that speckle tree bark and dangle from the canopy -LRB-

Instead, bare and sometimes rocky land can only support low growing plants such as moss, heath, and lichen.

Some lichens produce toxins that might serve as natural pesticides; one genus, Vulpicida, was once used in Scandinavia to poison wolves.

In fact, lichens are enlisted in North America and Europe as one of the fastest and cheapest means by which to assess pollution levels.

If you look at a landscape dominated by a bluff, you may still be seeing the colors of lichens just as surely as you do in the glimmering trees.

A lichen species known as British soldiers sports distinctive, bright red caps atop green stalks.

Although past scientific ignorance of lichens makes it difficult to determine whether they have been impacted as well, at least one species, Umbilicaria mammulata, has not been seen in the region since the 1920s.

Lichen - derived substances have been used as antibiotics and other drugs.

Lichens stipple landscapes of granite, blanket the ground like snow, and drip from tree branches as if they were tinsel.

Sometimes, Ladd says, a particularly interesting find — say, Phoebus hydrophobias, a bright orange lichen that he describes as a «mad - dog sunburst» — elicits a triumphant whoop from the team.

Eventually, microscopy enabled scientists to identify lichens as composites of mutually beneficial fungi and algae.

«These areas are home to the majority of Antarctic species — from seals and seabirds to mosses, lichens and small invertebrates, such as tardigrades and springtails.

As pollution detectors, the lichens were as accurate as the best equipment availablAs pollution detectors, the lichens were as accurate as the best equipment availablas accurate as the best equipment availablas the best equipment available.

«The lichens were in exactly the same shape as before flight.»

As collections manager at Chicago's Field Museum, Robert Lücking is a man who knows his lichens.

It lived well over 550 million years ago, is known only through fossils and has variously been described as looking a bit like a jellyfish, a worm, a fungus and lichen.

Lichens play an important role in ecological processes such as soil formation and nutrient cycling and serve as bioindicators of environmental toxicity.

MARCH 1959 DARWIN»S MISSING EVIDENCE «Less than a century ago moths of certain species were characterized by their light coloration, which matched such backgrounds as light tree trunks and lichen - covered rocks, on which the moths passed the daylight hours sitting motionless.

Eventually, however, terrestrial red and green algae and the first lichens developed on land and the final big rise in oxygen may have been caused by the «greening of the continents from around 800 million years ago,» when these simple early lifeforms on land steadily spread and broke down rocks that sustained a higher rate of erosion and led to the release of more nutrients into the oceans that stimulated even more photosynthesis by more newly evolved algae as well as older cyanobacteria (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010).

Foreign researchers honored as the 31st KIA laureates include: Prof. Eric Vivier (France) for his research on harnessing innate immunity against cancer; Prof. Jianfang Wang (Hong Kong, China) for his research on Colloidal Plasmonic Metal Nanocrystals; Prof. Majed Chergui (Switzerland) for his research on unravelling the fundamentals of solar; Prof. Katharina Gaus (Australia) for her research on Single molecule imaging of T cell receptor signaling; and Prof. Dr. Burkhard Büdel (Germany) for his research on Role of lichens and cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts.

Even more crustal minerals were formed by plate tectonics with the help of lubricating ocean water, atmospheric oxygen from the successful development of photosynthetic microbes, and land - based lichens (of algae and fungi) and mosses which were followed by deep - rooted plants that hastened the erosion and weathering of surface rocks with the help of biochemical action and the creation of soils as well as new clay minerals.

I have found her a vegan (from lichen) based D3 supplement instead now, but just wanted to know about some evidence (or lack of evidence) about omega 9 supplements (mum had no idea that was even in there as she doesn't even read the back of the pack just the brand name sounded good to her)?

Dietary supplements can be manufactured using intact sources or extracts from plants, animals, algae, fungi or lichens, including such examples as ginkgo biloba, curcumin, cranberry, St. John's wort, ginseng, resveratrol, glucosamine and collagen.

► Lightning strikes a lighthouse and we see a close - up of gel spreading and becoming larger at the base of the building where a small fire burns briefly; a wall of gel rises like a curtain from a jungle forest into the sky, making noises like muttering and muffled roars as we hear that the phenomenon is spreading and destroying all species on Earth; five scientists armed with military rifles enter the area to find trees that have become covered with flowers, woody plants have grown into human shapes covered with blossoms, the bodies of three missing soldiers have been engulfed with vines, moss, and lichens that have grown out of the bodies and the head of a soldier is found in a path (we see no blood or facial expression).

It's like a good museum: on the walls of abandoned dwellings, multi-colored lichens spread thick as the impasto on a painting by the artist Jess.

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Any job with his penknife is popular, such as cleaning lichen off the garden chairs.

It is believed that various men lived here for a time and worked harvesting a species of lichen, Rocella tinctoria, which was used as a dye.

Along the way you'll discover tall stands of aromatic blue gum trees, 300 - million - year - old shell fossils embedded in limestone cliffs, white talcum - powder beaches, lichen covered boulders, and soaring dolerite columns, as well as more wombats than you are likely to see anywhere else on Earth.

As a calm voice told me of nibbling hedgehogs and soft lichen growth, I looked up at the network of tree branches above and felt an incredible sense of peace.»

Hamilton spoke to Studio International at the opening of the exhibition, explaining her methods, her affection for kimonos, and how this opportunity has fed into her practice as a whole, including influencing her installation Lichen!

I am drawn to subjects expressing an extravagance in nature, such as orchids, lichens, corals and sponges.

American artist Tad Mike works outdoors, using lichen, grass, flowers and stones as some of his tools for painti...

Commonly known as map lichen, rhizocarpon geographicum grows approximately 1 cm every 100 years.

With lichen as muse, the museum solicits and develops actions and perspectives that explore ideas about individuality, labor, relationships to place, and non-human temporalities, and it raises questions about human dominance of the material world.

American artist Tad Mike works outdoors, using lichen, grass, flowers and stones as some of his tools for painting and drawing.