Lichens are fascinating organisms that play a crucial role in forest ecosystems. They are symbiotic associations between fungi and photosynthetic partners, usually algae or cyanobacteria.

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 ...

One more organism has taken a giant leap and gone into space, the humble lichen (really more than one species, as we all know that lichens are composites of algae and fungi). The European Space agency ...

On a trip to a nearby state park in 2005, they had made several discoveries, leading them to suspect Great Smoky Mountains also harbored many unknown lichens. Tripp, a botanist from the University of ...