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) is a lichen that has frequently been used as an emergency food in North America, and one species, Umbilicaria esculenta, is used in a variety of traditional Korean and Japanese foods.
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This vegetation is variously called open taiga, open lichen woodland, and forest tundra.
The flora is dominated by Arctic-alpine plants, wild flowers, moss and lichen.
The other type is the lichen woodland or sparse taiga, with trees that are farther-spaced and lichen ground cover ; the latter is common in the northernmost taiga.
One of the biggest areas of research and a topic still full of unsolved questions is the recurring disturbance of fire and the role it plays in propagating the lichen woodland.
The phenomenon of wildfire by lightning strike is the primary determinant of understory vegetation and because of this, it is considered to be predominate driving force behind community and ecosystem properties in the lichen woodland.
* Neurodermatitis ( aka lichen simplex chronicus, localized scratch dermatitis ) is an itchy area of thickened, pigmented eczema patch that results from habitual rubbing and scratching.
is also rarely associated with Sjögren's syndrome ( an autoimmune disorder ), thrombocytopenia, lichen planus, diabetes mellitus, and B-cell lymphoproliferative disorders.
The plant's specific name usneoides means " resembling Usnea ", and it indeed closely resembles its namesake Usnea, also known as beard lichen, but in fact Spanish moss is not biologically related to either mosses or lichens.
Eventually this is done on a massive scale, with thousands of types of GE algae, lichen and bacteria being created to terraform the planet.
An endolith is an organism ( archaeum, bacterium, fungus, lichen, alga or amoeba ) that lives inside rock, coral, animal shells, or in the pores between mineral grains of a rock.
The lichen association is a close symbiosis.
Although the form of a lichen is determined by the genetic material of the fungal partner, association with a photobiont is required for the development of that form.
There is evidence to suggest that the lichen symbiosis is parasitic or commensalistic, rather than mutualistic ( Ahmadjian 1993 ).
Lichenometry is a technique used to determine the age of exposed rock surfaces based on the size of lichen thalli.
Stability ( that is, longevity ) of their substrate is a major factor of lichen habitats.
For example, there is an ongoing lichen growth problem on Mount Rushmore National Memorial that requires the employment of mountain-climbing conservators to clean the monument.
The sensitivity of a lichen to air pollution is directly related to the energy needs of the mycobiont, so that the stronger the dependency of the mycobiont on the photobiont, the more sensitive the lichen is to air pollution.
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`` And if the dive goes OK he has the exclusive import rights to your line for this country, is that right ''??
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.
Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.
While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.
But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.
While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.
It has nothing of the proud stride of the trained runner about it, it is not a lope, it is not done with style or verve.
It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.
The music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, has molded his group into a prominent musical organization, which is his life.
`` Now that Bruno Walter is virtually in retirement and my dear friend Dimitri Mitropoulos is no longer with us, I am probably the only one -- with the possible exception of Leonard Bernstein -- who has this special affinity for and champions the works of Bruckner and Mahler ''.
Even though in most cases the completion of the definitive editions of their writings is still years off, enough documentation has already been assembled to warrant drawing a new composite profile of the leadership which performed the heroic dual feats of winning American independence and founding a new nation.
It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;
But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.
In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.
An approach that has appealed to some choreographers is reminiscent of Charles Olson's statement of the process of projective verse: `` one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception ''.
The process stipulates that the choreographer sense the quality of the initial movement he has discovered and that he feel the rightness of the quality that is to follow it.
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He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.
This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.
It is true that this distinction between style and idea often approaches the arbitrary since in the end we must admit that style and content frequently influence or interpenetrate one another and sometimes appear as expressions of the same insight.
We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.
Traditional crewel embroidery which seems to be appearing more frequently this fall than in the past few years is still available in this country.
One is impressed with the dignity, clarity and beauty of this new translation into contemporary English, and there is no doubt that the meaning of the Bible is more easily understandable to the general reader in contemporary language in the frequently archaic words and phrases of the King James.
These problems frequently arise where a firm is making items for the Government not directly along the lines of its normal civilian business or where the Government specifications require operations that the firm did not understand when it undertook the contract.
For he knows that the first and sometimes most difficult job is to know what the question is -- that when it is accurately identified it sometimes answers itself, and that the way in which it is posed frequently shapes the answer.
He is appreciative of the expert help available to him and draws these resources into play, taking care to examine at least some of the raw material which underlies their frequently policy-oriented conclusions.
A president is frequently besieged to serve in non-academic civic and governmental capacities, to make speeches to lay groups, and to make numerous ceremonial appearances on and off campus.
Towards the end of an intermediate or major rise, while the top is forming on the price chart, it is frequently observed that the odd-lot buying increases sharply.
The simplest division, and the one most frequently used ( with subdivisions ) in gas and electric rate cases, is a threefold division of the total operating and capital costs into `` customer costs '', `` energy '' or `` volumetric costs '', and `` demand '' or `` capacity '' costs.
) An authentic diffraction pattern is always obtained and optical properties are frequently checked.
The second step is to recognize the substantial agreement -- frequently blurred by emotionalism and inaccurate newspaper reporting -- already existing between Catholics and Non-Catholics concerning the over-all objectives of family planning.
Mary is cheery and gay when her husband comes home in the evenings, and the children's bed-time is frequently preceeded by a session of happy, family rough-housing.
Indeed, it is in the field of transportation that Congress has most frequently granted employers exemption from the anti-trust laws ; ;
One frequently has the feeling that the order of their movement combinations could be transposed without notable loss of effect, there is too little suggestion of organic relationship and development.
His normal specialty is playing the good-natured old man, frequently stupid or deluded but never mean or sly.
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