Sentences with phrase «by lichens»

From the shoreline, the open ground swells into low hills, some covered by lichens, some scraped bare by Ice Age glaciers.

I was hardly the first to be baffled by lichens.

«You can often tell what kind of rock you're looking at by the lichens,» Ladd says.

My colour scheme in this outfit was directly inspired by this lichen covered tree.

Remember to pack a good headlamp to light up the multi-hued cave walls, with colors caused by lichen and minerals.

Only 15 % of the study area was covered by lichen - tundra vegetation 500 years ago (or between 500 and 900 years ago, given the probable incidence of overlapping fires).

Not exact matches

Intricate tufts of orange and wispy bursts of yellow are inspired by observational nature studies of mold, lichen and fungal formations.

He doesn't want to be dogmatic, because the Bible doesn't explicitly say there aren't extraterrestrials... but it does say we supposedly have dominion over all the plants and animals... Genesis 1:26 would have to be dealt with, of course, if there were aliens... though perhaps not if the life - form were merely a form of moss or lichen... and there's no scriptural barrier to God's having designed a planet populated entirely by spatulas...

These extreme environments are frequented not just by hardy bacteria and lichens, but also by scientists.

In a study led by the University of Montana and co-authored by Purdue mycologist M. Catherine Aime, researchers show that lichens across six continents also contain basidiomycete yeasts, single - celled fungi that likely produce chemicals that help lichens ward off predators and repel microbes.

We have been measuring vegetation for 20 years, so we can also use that to say, «Wow, we are losing grasses,» for instance — which we are — and say, «Okay, parks, you know, you are losing grasses, and you're losing grasses in areas that have never been grazed and are not visited by people, and you're losing that lichen, Collema, in an area that has never been grazed and has never been visited by people.

Like the finches observed by Darwin in the Galápagos Islands, genetically distinct subspecies of squirrels, lizards, ants, and lichens have evolved on different outposts.

Within the dominant oak - hickory woodlands, one finds a diversity of habitats, from rocky glades inhabited by roadrunners and cacti to wetlands with highly mineralized groundwater — all welcoming spots for lichens to settle in myriad colors and forms.

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.

During certain seasons in the Arctic, caribou survive by eating reindeer lichens.

The local diversity and unique geologic history (covered by neither glaciers nor oceans for the past 225 million years, the Ozarks provided refuge for migrating species during the Ice Age) explain the richness of the lichens here: some 600 named species, along with 30 recently discovered ones awaiting their official designation.

Originally these odd forms were thought to be part of the plant kingdom, which is why we still see lichens collected by botanical gardens.

In an experiment led by Leopoldo Sancho from the Complutense University of Madrid, two species of lichen — Rhizocarpon geographicum and Xanthoria elegans — were sealed in a capsule and launched on a Russian Soyuz rocket on 31 May 2005.

A survey of the local plant community by soil biologist and co-author John Moore found that dwarf birch shrubs increased by 94 percent, while lichens were almost completely wiped out.

A pair of look - alike lichens may have outed a creature that escaped detection by biologists for centuries

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).

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.

Bumps on side of the tongue can be caused by oral cancer, canker sores, allergic reactions, dental appliances, trauma or injuries, oral lichen planus, oral cancer, oral herpes, fibroma, oral thrush, vitamins deficiency among other reasons we have already discussed.

The white bumps are often caused by oral thrush (both in children and adults), leukoplakia, oral lichen planus, and canker sores, injuries (from biting, burning, dental appliances), piercings and jewelry, among other conditions.

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.

The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called «fire caves.»

In Tanov's exquisite Design by Nature, she illustrates how a vintage lace curtain mirrors a decomposing leaf; exposed denim selvages bring to mind «a foggy day at the beach»; and tassels and fringe summon «the languorous quality of lichen.»

A major attraction here is Remarkable Rocks, a seaside collection of enormous orange - lichen - covered granite boulders carved into strange shapes by millions of years of rain, wind and waves.

Named for the aboriginal campfires spotted by early explorers, the area is also ablaze with fiery orange lichen - covered boulders.

Lichens start breaking down the rock to form the first soil followed by plants like fireweed which fix nitrogen into the soil.

During Sector 2337's group exhibition, Imperceptibly and Slowly Opening (organized by The Green Lantern Press), A. Laurie Palmer will install her Lichen Museum in Sector 2337's project space.

Featuring artists Sebastian Alvarez, Srijon Chowdhury, Katy Cowan, Zoe Crosher, Lindsey French, Essi Kausalainen, Deanna Ledezma, Wilfredo Prieto, Steve Ruiz, John Steck Jr., Linda Tegg, and Andrew Yang; a night of performances by Katherine Behar and Joshua Kent (curated by Every house has a door); and The Lichen Museum, an Institution in Residence, by A. Laurie Palmer.

Produced by the Green Lantern Press and on view at Sector 2337 from Oct 09 — Nov 21, 2015 & featuring artists Sebastian Alvarez, Srijon Chowdhury, Katy Cowan, Zoe Crosher, Lindsey French, Essi Kausalainen, Deanna Ledezma, Wilfredo Prieto, Steve Ruiz, John Steck Jr., Linda Tegg, and Andrew Yang; a night of performances by Katherine Behar and Joshua Kent (curated by Every house has a door); and The Lichen Museum, an Institution in Residence, by A. Laurie Palmer.

A gallery assistant poses amongst work by Anthea Hamilton from her nominated show «Lichen!

Taking place at 8 pm on both June 15th and 16th at Disjecta Interdisciplinary Art Center (8371 N Interstate Avenue / Portland Oregon 97217) the mood set by performances from Dan Sasaki, Grouper, Kevin Thomson, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs, Sam Coomes, Scout Niblett, Sonny Smith, Strawberry Smog, The Lichens, Ural Thomas, and Vetiverrelaxing, will be mellow.

Back, Lichen Study Guide for Oklahoma and the Surrounding States, Dr. Sheila Strawn, published by Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 2017.

In his final decade, he painted many close - up views of the bark on birch and maple trees, with the gray and silvery lichen set off by the warm browns and grays.

(f) Lichen - heath tundras caused by deforesting fire 450 years ago adjacent to fire - free lichen - spruce woodLichen - heath tundras caused by deforesting fire 450 years ago adjacent to fire - free lichen - spruce woodlichen - spruce woodlands.

Woodland and krummholz cover 30 % of the study area, whereas lichen - tundra communities occupy the remaining well - drained sites up to the highest altitude, approximately 215 m a.s.l. Several sandy lichen - tundra sites along the river bank are also occupied by sand dunes, largely controlled by fire (Saint - Laurent & Filion 1992).

Winter habitat selection by caribou in relation to lichen abundance, wildfires, grazing, and landscape characteristics in northwest Alaska

This «compost - bomb instability» is most likely to occur in drying organic soils with high porosity covered by an insulating lichen or moss layer.

The original article points out that in areas burned as long as 35 years ago by fire, areas which normally had large amounts of moss and lichen have nearly none, with shrubby trees increasing from about 5 % to 40 % of the landscape mix.

Yes, it is 2011, soon to be 2012, and the Dinosaurs, the most successful species to ever populate the earth (for approximately five hundred million years) were not extinguished due to their inability to evolve and grow with natural changing conditions, but were simply eliminated by a one - in - a-million extra-terrestrial event over a short period of time (one to three years), as were all forms of sun reliant life with the exception of a few ocean dwelling species, subsurface ground dwelling worms, plant life like lichens and other mindless species able to lie dormant for extended periods of time, as well as nocturnal, ground dwelling little rodents that ate roots, dead or alive, (from which we so - called superior life forms evolved).

Get the look: The sofa is from Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams, the blinds are from Smith + Noble, the coffee table is from Shine by S.H.O., the lamp is from Arteriors, and the Lichen pillow is from John Robshaw Textiles.

Over the course of the garden's existence, these lichen - encrusted pine trees and twisted branches, which came from the National Trust's seaside property, Formby, will be smothered in living fungi, grown by the artists in a glasshouse behind you.