Lichens

... place (I go down to this large creek in the middle of a deep forest. Soil is moist, lots of trees and such.) I found many different mosses and lichens, yet no liverworts. I guess mainly when I look for them, I find myself often looking for the stereotypical thallose liverwort. Regardless, if ...

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Hi Theongreyjoy. Interesting question. Lichens would increase a little because they hate pollution but I don't know about mosses. For them to increase the climate would have to get wetter. I don't think that we are affecting the water cycle ...

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... real big. They all lack the complexity of true vascular plants (Metaphytae) what precludes them from conquering land hábitats but in the form of lichens. However some algae, particularly brown ones (Phaeophytae), display a hig degree of tissue differentiation along whith organs pretty close to ...

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... and are used as kind of bioindicators at least in the northern parts of the globe. In industrial regions in Northern Europe, for example, some lichens were absent for most of the twentieth century, but after better pollution control they re-emerged in many areas during the last few decades ...

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... shifted to the smaller end. Another example would be the peppered moths famous in England. Most were white because they could blend in with the lichens growing on the trees which camoflauged them from hunting birds. However, there were always a small number of dark colored moths. These moths ...

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