Sentences with phrase «of lichens»

There are many different species of Lichen, and we work with a carefully selected strain we have proved contains Vitamin D3.

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.

A colorful collage of lichens growing on rock in an arid region of the Southwestern USA.

Fifty - two genera of lichens collected from around the world include a second fungus — single cells, called yeasts, of a previously unknown order now christened Cyphobasidiales.

Long - Chain Lichen is a one - of - a-kind accordion möbius book made of mixed media collages of lichens real and imagined.

This is a large scale drawing of different kinds of lichen morphing from one kind to another.

Other varieties of lichen provide more than 90 percent of the winter and spring diet for northern flying squirrels in parts of Oregon and Idaho.

Their area of interest includes my local hotbed of lichen activity: the Ozark Plateau, which covers most of Missouri, the northern third of Arkansas, the eastern edge of Oklahoma, a tiny corner of Kansas, and a nibble of Illinois.

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.

In its nymphal form, it is the spitting image of the lichen that is abundant in the insect's habitat.

The roughly woven and torn background of raffia and cotton echoes his Catalan period, while an appropriated piece of lichen green wool rests elegantly as the center, whereas the lower part suggests bark peeling off a tree.

Some of the works were reminiscent of the gossamer skeins of a spiderweb; others, of lichen covering the forest floor.

Samples were cared for, preserved and added to a display of the lichen featured as the fulcrum of the exhibition and residency for Concept / OK.

Samples were cared for, preserved and added to a display of the lichen featured as the fulcrum of the exhibition.

They were feeding on a 4 ″ thick mat of lichen that covered the 332 km ² island.

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.

Entire communities of lichens in coastal North Carolina might be tweezed from their current habitat and transplanted to higher ground

Moving in tightly, using natural light to achieve a kind of luminescent quality, he now works with what might be called commonplace objects of nature, creating abstract studies of the form and fabric of lichens, ice crystals, seeds, wind - blasted wood, insect - eaten leaves.

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.

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

Dal - Forno and her colleagues analyzed DNA in a highly variable region of the lichen's fungal component.

The miraculous recovery of a coral and the gargantuan range of a lichen may both result from the surprising evolutionary advantages their «alternative» lifestyles give them

The fungus, in turn, forms the main structure of the lichen and offers its photosynthesizing partner protection from the environment.

But once the researchers began looking for traces of similar yeasts in other lichens, they found related lineages in 52 genera of lichens worldwide and molecular evidence that indicates a long, shared evolutionary history between the symbiotic partners.

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.

Mallon examined 32 ankylosaur fossils from Alberta (of which 26 were found belly up), photos of specimens, field notes, and other signs such as erosion of the exposed surface, sun bleaching, and the presence of lichens.

But others say it's time to throw the textbook understanding of lichens out the window.

But without a microscope to see green clusters or strings of photosynthetic organisms running like arteries through the fungal flesh, you can not always tell you are seeing a colony of lichens.

Their identity came into dispute again when blue - green algae, a frequent component of lichens, were reclassified as cyanobacteria, a kind of bacteria that obtain energy through photosynthesis.

The significance of lichens probably runs even deeper than these scattered examples suggest.

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.

But as it turned out, whether the fungi were harvesting algae or cyanobacteria, the symbiotic modus operandi of the lichens proved to be the same.

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.

When they come across a crusty specimen, they use chisels or knives to cut a sample of the lichen and its substrate, sealing it all in a paper bag.

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.

When my sons climb to prospect for higher views, half their footholds are ledges of lichen or simple fungus.

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

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.

No, it is in fact a close - up of lichen taken in West Kerry, Ireland.

Carl leaned his head against a bar of old irony and stared at the delicate tracery of lichen that covered the crete at his feet — living on dead, dead on deader.

Where there is forest, it is somber and mossy, spruce and balsam fir hung with long pale sheets of lichen dangling from the branches like rotting curtains.

Addiction has been detected in nature: Bohemian waxwing birds are known to get hooked on the juice of fermented berries just as some bighorn sheep become habitual grazers of lichen laced with psychoactive qualities.

Far from hyper - real, the technique lends itself to evocative depictions of lichen, snow, ice, water and the many mottled surfaces that pervade Becker's compositions.

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (b. 1975, Kansas City, MO) is an artist and composer who works with voice in the realm of spontaneous music, often under the moniker of Lichens.

From seed and spore dispersal, to rapid cell growth of eukaryotic organisms, and the pulsing cilia needed to sustain them, to the slow growth of lichens and moss - life has a remarkable way of establishing itself on the planet; yet, most of these processes go unseen to the human eye.

Urban Colonization was designed to draw attention to the hidden world of lichens while engaging the Kansas City public through art, science and participation.

These works incorporate photographs and drawings of lichen specimens I have collected, identified, studied and donated to herbariums.