Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026.This study underscores the importance of healthy and impaired biocrusts in dryland systems and suggests ways in which the combination of biocrust and seed placement can influence plant establishment, in addition to providing insight into seeding strategies for managers and restoration practitioners working in dryland sites.
Abby McMurtry +6 more
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New species or interesting records of foliicolous lichens : 7., Calenia flava (Ostropales: Gomphillaceae) [PDF]
, 2000 Calenia flava spec. nova from Papua New Guinea is described and illustrated. The new species is closely related to C. phyllogena but differs in the larger apothecia with yellow disc and the abundance of sterile thallus ...
Lücking, Robert +2 more
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Molecular Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 9, May 2026.ABSTRACT Understanding how aerial fungal diversity varies across space, habitat, and disturbance is key to linking local‐scale sporocarp (fruiting body) reproduction with continental‐scale biogeography. In this study, we combined passive spore trap metabarcoding with macrofungal sporocarp records from 31 plots in eight sites across North America to ...
Andrew W. Ratz +18 more
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Deciphering the biosynthetic pathways of lichen acids
New Phytologist, Volume 250, Issue 3, Page 1784-1799, May 2026.Summary Depsides and depsidones are polyketide‐derived lichen acids widely distributed in lichen thalli, yet the biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) responsible for their production remain poorly understood. To address this gap, we investigated the diversity and evolutionary relationships of polyketide BGCs in lichens.
Wonyong Kim +11 more
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A comparative analysis of gaseous phase hydration properties of two lichenized fungi: Niebla tigrina (Follman) Rundel & Bowler from Atacama Desert and Umbilicaria antarctica Frey & I. M. Lamb from Robert Island, Southern Shetlands Archipelago, maritime Antarctica. [PDF]
Extremophiles, 2021 Harańczyk H +8 more
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Effects of warming on plant uptake of post‐fire nitrogen in an arctic heath tundra
New Phytologist, Volume 250, Issue 3, Page 1510-1521, May 2026.Summary Postfire nitrogen (N) becomes increasingly important with the rising frequency of fires in arctic tundra, and climate warming is expected to accelerate plant recovery following fire. However, how plants differ in utilizing this postfire N and how their postfire N uptake responds to warming remains unknown.
Wenyi Xu, Per Lennart Ambus
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Photobiont composition of some taxa of the genera Micarea and Placynthiella (Lecanoromycetes, lichenized Ascomycota) from Ukraine [PDF]
, 2011 The photobionts of 22 specimens of Placynthiella and Micarea genera were identified. The photobionts of Placynthiella dasaea (Stirt.) Khodosovtsev, P. icmalea (Ach.) Coppins & P. James, Micarea melanobola (Nyl.) Coppins and M.
Dymytrova, Lyudmila +2 more
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New records of lichens and lichenicolous fungi from the Ural Mountains, Russia [PDF]
, 2011 A total of 53 taxa of lichens and lichenicolous fungi are first reported from the Ural Mountains (Republic Bashkortostan, Russia). Nine lichen species, Anema decipiens, Bagliettoa parmigera, Diplotomma hedinii, Heteroplacidium compactum, H. zamenhofianum,
Urbanavichene, Irina +1 more
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Scanning Electron Microscopy of the Contact Site of Conidia and Trichogynes in Cladonia Furcata [PDF]
, 2017 The contact sites of pycnidia and the terminal cells of trichogynes in Cladonia furcata were investigated using either freshly fixed material, or ascomatal primordia and pycnidia from which the gelatinous material either on the primordial surface, or in ...
Honegger, Rosmarie
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New Estonian records: Lichenized and lichenicolous fungi [PDF]
, 2017 30 fungal species, 18 of them lichenized and 12 lichenicolous fungi, are recorded for the first time for Estonia. One species, Buellia badia, has been re-discovered after 140 years.
Czarnota, Paweł +6 more
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