Safford Lab's Jesse Miller co-leads most comprehensive lichen recolonization study
Frequent Fire Narrows Recovery Window for Lichens in Chaparral Shrublands
Lichen communities may take decades — and in some cases up to a century — to fully return to chaparral ecosystems after wildfire, finds a study from the University of California, Davis, and Stanford University.
The study, published today in the journal Diversity and Distributions, is the most comprehensive to date of long-term lichen recolonization after fire.
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