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NatGeo have released a YouTube short on the biology of Lichen.
What’s in a Lichen? How Scientists Got It Wrong for 150 Years
Needs to be a bit longer to give more background and more details rather than ‘cute’ drone shots (both issues I have with the ‘TikTok’ style infotainment genre) but it does settle the litch-en vs like-en question 🙂 and the cute drone shots give some wonderful scenery to gawp at.
Have to agree with everything you said. I found it quite interesting, was just settling into it, and it ended. Very cool though, thanks for sharing it.
I too would have enjoyed a lot more details on how the three species interact. Very interesting though.
I’ve always heard, and pronounced it as “like-en”. Wasn’t aware of any alternative way!
As an aside, I’m planning a day’s hike tomorrow in terrain like that. Guess I’ll have to keep an eye out for the lichens that are everywhere!
That is a great video. Amazing that science is still asking questions and finding answers, but also that errors of reasoning can be challenged and disproved 150 years on from the first discovery.
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?..I’m planning a day’s hike tomorrow in terrain like that…
I may make it to the local country park if lucky – so green with envy now!!!
Hi guys,
Well to me it’s obviously a promo, not the ‘Short Film’ referenced. I think.
A bit like ‘NatGeo’ I think what the fork? Meaningless claptrap is destroying knowledge and intellect. I agree.
Good to see the results, but even more that the lichen on our little islands that haven’t been connected to the Rest-of-World since Gondwana Land, are identical in mode and form.
Hell I still have the lichen I went tramping to collect for modelling in the Southern Alps, 200+ miles from my then home in Christchurch back in the late ’70s!
cheers dave
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I remember ‘studying’ lichens when I was at school, getting on for 50 years ago. Living in a Pennine mill-town, it was interesting to see lichens re-colonising areas that pollution had cleared them from. We were taught the two component theory too.
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