Sentences with phrase «with lichen»

And rising amid the heady blooms are three arbors patinated with lichen.

Spruce - moss stands are the most important forest type in depressions, whereas lichen - spruce woodlands and krummholz (pygmy forests; distorted spruce less than 2.5 m high) are distributed on slopes and exposed summits along with lichen - heath - dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa Michx.)

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.

There she joined Scot Anderson and Peter Pyle, the two biologists who bunk down during shark season each fall in the island's one habitable building, a haunted, 135 - year - old house spackled with lichen and gull guano.

(I'm 50 now) About 6 yrs ago I was diagnosed with Lichen Sclerosis (vulvar).

Shortly after discovering my gluten sensitivity, I was diagnosed with Lichen Sclerosis.

Have you treated anyone with Lichen Planus if so would appreciate any helpful things to do or supplements to take.

(I'm 50 now) About 6 yrs ago I was diagnosed with Lichen Sclerosis (vulvar).

It takes another 20 years for a community rich with lichens and mosses to establish.

Meanwhile, native Virginia creeper and poison ivy would claw at walls covered with lichens, which thrive in the absence of air pollution.

On land, the snow melts to expose tundra, which blooms with lichens, shrubs, and grasses.

Not exact matches

yes, someone should explain conflating «survival of the fittest» with being an apex predator to algae and lichens.

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.

The Fern Room's lichens, ferns and cycads, some of which are more than 250 years old, require a hot, steamy environment and already, with the summer breeze blowing through the exposed greenhouse, the plants are suffering.

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.

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...

Their hollows and crevices provide shelter for myriad animals and their trunks and branches can become gardens, festooned with ferns, orchids, bromeliads and other epiphytes, coated with mosses and lichens and draped with vines.

GAZE out over a tropical rainforest and the scene looks idyllic — a kaleidoscope of trees festooned with colourful vines, orchids, ferns and 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.

Since 1867, scientists have recognized the fundamental partnership that produces lichens: A fungus joins with an alga or cyanobacteria in a relationship that benefits both individuals.

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.

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

With their gnarled, lichen - covered trees, rich carpets of moss and burns tumbling down rocky ravines, they look like something from Lord of the Rings.»

Studies of gene activity have now revealed that many lichens are instead a threesome, with two fungi in the mix.

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-

They fill plants with heavy metals and kill lichens and mosses with their dust.

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

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.

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.

Studies of gene activity have now revealed that many lichens are not a twosome but instead a threesome, with two fungi in the mix.

The researchers then assayed concentrations of copper in the lichens and compared the results with those acquired using mechanical monitoring devices.

«If this proposed mechanism is true, we should be seeing this in other plants,» Donoghue says, because many plants share close quarters with mosses and lichens and have similar wound responses.

The whole leeward side of a box elder tree is crusted with green: Where does one lichen end and another begin?

Lücking and his team collected and sequenced DNA from 376 samples of the leafy lichen and discovered 126 new species among them, many with striking physical differences, according to their study published in June.

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

The new study, which was published online today in the journal Molecular Ecology, finds that fungal organisms reduce their core genomic makeup while coalescing with algae to form a lichen partnership, one presumed to be «obligate» (i.e., requiring both partners) but had previously lacked direct genetic verification.

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.

The WTU Herbarium's total holdings number more than 650,000 specimens of vascular and nonvascular plants, fungi, lichens and marine algae with the oldest specimens dating to the late 1800s.

The plot itself was blanketed with ferns, and full of soaring sequoias and lichen - covered sugar pines.

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.

Other conditions that doctors are starting to treat with the laser include mild urinary stress incontinence, urinary urgency and frequency, and lichen sclerosus (a vulvar skin condition).

Only lanolin -, fish oil -, and lichen - based supplements can provide you with D3.

«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.

The first ever Organic, sustainable and plant - based Vitamin D tablet delivering 2000IU of vegan Vitamin D3 sourced from lichen, unflavored, with no fillers.

Sustainably sourced floral, wood, resin, lichen, and citrus essential oils and absolutes are lovingly combined with reconstructed accords, while a single sprig of floral decoration completes a minimalist aesthetic, with a nod to Wabi - sabi.

I have been diagnosed with oral and esophagus lichen planus.

(similar to lichen from Reindeer gut) I also wonder whether their gut bacteria may actually be different to begin with.

► 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).

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

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.»