Scientists just discovered the secret to the Great Wall of China's legendary strength that's kept it incredibly intact for ...

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.

"Compared with bare rammed earth, the cyanobacteria, moss and lichen biocrust-covered sections of the Great Wall exhibited reduced porosity, water-holding capacity, erodibility and salinity by up ...

We are analysing the patterns of functional and genetic diversity of lichenised fungi, algae and cyanobacteria in freshwater and coastal ... and the Valdivian temperate rainforest in Chile. Lichen ...

Lichens are believed to be one of the oldest organisms colonized ... but sometimes it can be a photosynthesizing bacterium known as cyanobacteria (neela haritha algae in Sinhala). This is a symbiotic ...

Lichens are neither plant nor animal and they are not moss. They are symbiotic organisms composed of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria. Sometimes yeast is also present, Glacier Institute Outdoor ...

The cyanobacteria form sticky filaments that ... it can also house itty-bitty mosses, lichens and microscopic algae. For example, in desert areas with more moisture, like Moab, Utah, biocrusts ...

Our research supports the theory that early soils were: formed of communities of cyanobacteria, fungi, lichens, small rootless plants mostly thin (millimetre and centimetre scale) inhabited by diverse ...

The collection also contains cyanobacterial strains isolated from lichen symbiosis and from a variety of habitats ... basis for important publications advancing the knowledge of toxic cyanobacteria as ...

Lichens close lichenAn organism that is part fungus and part algae or cyanobacteria. Lichen grow in exposed places such as rocks and can be used as an indicator species for air pollution.