Mosses and lichens quietly shape the world around us. Hidden in the shaded corners of forests, draped across stone, and even tucked into city sidewalks, mosses and lichens quietly shape the world ...

Invisible freeways of wind may account for the similarity of plant species on islands that lie thousands of kilometers apart, according to a novel study of satellite data. NASA’s QuikSCAT satellite, ...

Tropical rainforests are the world’s most significant source of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs). These compounds have a great influence on the concentration of oxidative substances and ...

The growths are abundant here in the Pacific Northwest, preferring areas with cool and wet weather. Today, with the skies clear and the sun out, I decided to take a micro-view of the world and go on a ...

Algae, lichens and moss often form green or grey, powdery or mossy, crusty growths on the stems, branches and trunks of trees and shrubs. Pictured here, lichen and moss. This dreary "gray all day" ...

Zikhona Ndlovu is affiliated with Stellenbosch University and iThemba LABS. She works as a Junior Research Scientist of iThemba LABS in Cape Town. For her PhD studies at Stellenbosch University, she ...

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Mosses and lichens are the dominant macrophytes of the Antarctic terrestrial ecosystem. Using occurrence data from existing databases and additional published records, we analyzed patterns of moss and ...

Banner image: William Weber, a professor emeritus at CU Boulder, has received three lifetime achievement awards for his research on lichens and mosses. (Credit: AC Violet, CU Boulder Libraries) ...

We're now in June and it was raining once again on the day I wrote this. No doubt sometime in the near future a hot, dry spell will have us complaining about the heat, but right now a more balanced ...