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Lichens of North America

Title: Lichens of North America / Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Stephen Sharnoff ; with selected drawings by Susan Laurie-Bourque.
Author: Brodo, Irwin M.
Publication: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Description

xxiii, 795 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 29 cm

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Contents

Foreword / Peter H. Raven -- Pt. 1. About the Lichens. 1. Lichens: The Organism. 2. How Lichens Are Built: Thallus Shapes and Structure. 3. How Lichens Reproduce. 4. Colors of Lichens. 5. How Lichens Live: Physiology and Growth. 6. Lichen Chemistry. 7. Where Lichens Grow: Their Substrates. 8. Lichens and Ecosystems. 9. Geographic Distributions in North America. 10. Lichens and People. 11. Environmental Monitoring with Lichens. 12. Naming and Classifying Lichens. 13. Collecting and Studying Lichens. 14. Using This Book to Name a Lichen: Hints and Conventions -- Pt. 2. Guide to the Lichens. Identification Keys to Genera and Major Groups. Key to Keys. Key A: Fruticose Lichens. Key B: Dwarf Fruticose Filamentous Lichens. Key C: Sterile Crustose Lichens. Key D: Crustose Perithecial Lichens and Lichens with Ascomata Resembling Perithecia. Key E: Crustose Script Lichens. Key F: Crustose Disk Lichens. Key G: Squamulose Lichens. Key H: Umbilicate and Fan-Shaped Lichens.
Key I: Jelly Lichens. Key J: Yellow Foliose Lichens. Key K: Foliose Lichens That Are not Umbilicate, Jelly-Like, or Yellow. Descriptions, Illustrations, Keys to Species, and Maps. App. Classification of Lichen Fungi.

ISBN

0300082495 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

00049541

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Columbia University Libraries