If you have trees in your home garden, then you likely have noticed some funny-looking growths on their bark that typically ...

Lichen is a type of plant that has a similar nature. So, how do you tell if it's lichen or moss growing in your yard?Although ...

And it seems as though every tree trunk and many branches either on the trees or on the ground have thick growths of lichens. But there is another difference in the woods during this early ...

Lichens, the silent guardians of our ecosystem, are under threat from climate change and need to be saved, write BKP Sinha ...

Armed with that information, park managers can take additional steps to protect trees, rocks and soils that are host to unique lichen populations. “It’s one of the fundamental building blocks of the ...

We are studying the spatial patterns of lichen species richness and community composition along different scales, from individual trees up to the landscape level. We are focusing on species in the UK ...

As November settles in and the trees shed their last leaves, a hidden world emerges in our state parks—nature’s secret ...

Lichen symbiosis is particularly successful in habitats with frequent changes in water availability. In contrast, long periods of constant immersion in freshwater or seawater is tolerated only by a ...

Work is underway to save lichen growing on dying trees by transplanting them to other parts of the forest and by planting new trees. "Because of ash dieback and the changes in climate - the crisis ...