Lichens of the World
A Guide to Every Family
$49.30
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
9 February 2027
Summary
A magnificently illustrated guide to the world’s extraordinary diversity of lichens
Lichens are not autonomous organisms but a symbiotic partnership between fungi and photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria. With more than 20,000 species found across the globe, they are an enormously successful life-form, capable of surviving in some of the harshest environments on the planet. This book provides a wide-ranging look at the 117 currently accepted families of lichen-formin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691280455 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0691280452 |
| Author: | Bibiana Moncada, Robert Lücking |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 9 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 171mm x 241mm |
| Series: | A Guide to Every Family |
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Bibiana Moncada
Bibiana Moncada is a professor at the Universidad Distrital in Bogotá, Colombia, and a curator at the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum of Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. She oversees a collection of four hundred thousand lichen specimens.
Robert Lücking is Head of the Department of Evolution and Biodiversity at the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum of Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin. He is also the author, with Toby Spribille, of The Lives of Lichens (Princeton).
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