Sentences with phrase «lichen on»

Her current project involves culturing lichen on the sides of skyscrapers in NYC.

Leaning against the far wall are a series of canvases screen printed in cyan, magenta, yellow and a range of grays to black, each with the same flattened photographic image of lichen on the surface of a rock.

But on East Main, in the false dawn, the air was heavy with the smell of night - blooming flowers and lichen on damp stone and the fecund odor of Bayou Teche, and even though a gold service star may have hung in a window of a grand mansion, indicating the death of a serviceman in the family, the year could have been mistaken for 1861 rather than 1942.

To borrow the monster's own description of indelible knowledge, Shelley's tale «clings to the mind... like a lichen on the rock.»

I'm constantly gathering — it could be the colour of lichen on a stone, a painted building or the regular patterns of a woven fabric.

They include: radiocarbon dating, OSL, CRN, dendro and lichens on occasion.

Not exact matches

I often have a few test pots going of local plants including mushrooms and lichens, testing the colors on various fabrics and my handspun yarns.

One way to see if air has lots of oxygen in it is to look for signs of lichen growing on tree limbs.

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.

The remaining 16 studies found a variety of impacts on organisms ranging from lichens to snails to cedar trees.

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).

Whereas the chiefly single - celled prokaryotes barely figure in the CBD, fungi at least get a mention in the updated Global Strategy for Plant Conservation, which is part of the convention: «Parties may choose on a national basis to include other taxa, including algae, lichens and fungi.»

Based on his study of lichens, Swiss botanist Simon Schwendener was the first scientist to propose that some organisms are not autonomous individuals but combinations of unrelated species that work together.

If life exists on Mars, it is most likely to be in the form of bacteria buried deep in the planet's permafrost or lichens growing within rocks, say scientists from NASA.

A study of 22 different types of lichens revealed 10 included fungi that had lost a gene for energy production, making them completely dependent on their algal partner.

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.

The fungal partner in many lichen jettison a gene that's critical for energy production — making them completely dependent on their algal associates.

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

Other biocrust communities, like these on the Colorado Plateau, include mosses, lichens and fungi.

Lichen isn't much to look at — often just a gray, yellow - green, or garish orange crust on rock or bark.

Vagrant lichens live loose on the ground, rolling freely with the wind.

The story of vanishing biomes is now all too familiar, but lichens can issue a warning before destruction occurs; they can also signal an environment on the mend.

Scientists believe lichens were among the first living things to try their luck on dry land some 600 million years ago, 200 million years before the first plants arrived.

Because fungi take the more dominant role and cultivate photosynthesizing algae for food, in return providing them a shady, moist, vitamin - rich environment, scientists have classified lichens based on their fungi species.

These microscopic, aquatic animals inhabit moss and lichen in trees and are found on all seven continents.

If a review addressed any of the paper's serious scientific problems, I sent the editor a «revised» version that was superficially improved — a few more photos of lichens, fancier formatting, extra details on methodology — but without changing any of the fatal scientific flaws.

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.

The lichens were subjected to the vacuum of space and to temperatures ranging from -20 °C on the night side of the Earth, to 20 °C on the sunlit side.

Amborella lives naturally only in New Caledonia, in a moist environment, with a lot of lichens and other organisms growing on its surfaces.

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered the first known molecular evidence of obligate symbiosis in lichens, a distinctive co-evolutionary relationship that could shed new light on how and why some multicellular organisms consolidate their genomes in order to co-exist.

This obligate arrangement - in which one partner relinquishes its own mitochondrial power supply to likely become reliant on its partner for cellular energy - suggests a genetic division of labor that makes the resulting lichen more efficient, Tripp said, thereby perhaps conferring an ecological advantage.

Since my last post was on the awesome power of lichens, I thought I'd share a few photos of some of our amazing locals.Our very first lichen was probably the most spectacular: Thamnolia vermicularis, the whiteworm lichen.

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.

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

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.

Colorful lichens found on the granite faces.

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.

«I was once diagnosed with lupus, lichen planus (lost all 20 nails), ADD, depression, COPD, allergies, atherosclerosis with chest pain, metabolic syndrome, rapidly progressing to full blown diabetes, high CRP, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia,» says Peggy M. «I was living on inhalers, antibiotics, prednisone, antidepressants, sleeping pills, allergy meds and more... I began to try alternative things.

My lichen sclerosis is healed on my arms & face & my skin looks so healthy and less wrinkles!!

► 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.

Slurping ramen noodles from a thermos amid the cold, lichen - crusted rocks overlooking Heljarkambur, we reflected on the past few days.

Air breathing, they have a very light shell and feed on lichens.

Santa Cruz's Painted Cave, so named because of the colorful lichens that flourish on its steep rock face, is a popular destination for kayakers eager to explore its stunning beauty.

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.

Organized Lichen Walks will be available on October 10th at 10:00, 2:00, and 4:00.

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.

The activities of the Lichen Museum include, among other things, a screening of lichen and lichenologists, guided lichen walks on October 10th, and a window installLichen Museum include, among other things, a screening of lichen and lichenologists, guided lichen walks on October 10th, and a window installlichen and lichenologists, guided lichen walks on October 10th, and a window installlichen walks on October 10th, and a window installation.

Carson Fisk - Vittori, detail from Weather pollination techniques: out of human visible range (2016); 78 x 36 x 36 inches; UV prints on aluminum, aluminum poles, bamboo, hand - formed plastic, lichen covered branch, lotus seed pod, digital camera, flexible tripod, negative ion showerhead, metal and plastic hardware and fixtures, velcro, water.