Sentences with phrase «lichens survive»

Lichens survive in a dormant, dehydrated state.

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They still host hardy organisms like lichens, mosses, and nematodes that can survive the brutal conditions.

Other experiments have shown that lichens, along with microscopic invertebrates called tardigrades, can also survive long stretches in the vacuum.

Before this experiment, only lichen and bacteria were known to be able to survive exposure to the combination of vacuum and space radiation.

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

Lichens are the most complex form of life now known to have survived prolonged exposure to space.

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.

NASA recently took lichen to space and it survived the trek.

Even the lichens (symbiotic organsism made of fungus and an algae or bacteria) that survive on the rocky debris, or moraine, that forms around a glacier have a story to tell.