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

Now that the trees have dropped their leaves for the season, people tend to notice a greenish-gray crusty growth on the bare ...

Lichens are characteristic elements of temperate and tropical forests. We are studying the spatial patterns of lichen species richness and community composition along different scales, from individual ...

Many calls come into the Pulaski County Extension office regarding gray or gray/green growths on the trunks or large limbs of ...

Fieldwork is being carried out in Europe, tropical areas in Costa Rica, Venezuela and Malaysia, and the Valdivian temperate rainforest in Chile. Lichen symbiosis is particularly successful in habitats ...

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 ...

Most of the leaves had fallen, leaving a landscape of barren trees and small shrubs. Bright against the browning of the forest stood a cluster of rocks, coated in light green lichen. I realized ...