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New Zealand Lichens
Paperback Edition: revise
Fungi can't make their own food. They survive only because they've evolved ways of getting food from other creatures. Some of them take on algal and bacterial partners that can make food by trapping sunlight. That "life style" is called a lichen. Of all the many creatures in our world, lichens thrive in the greatest variety of places, not just on rock, soil, and bark where you'd expect to find them, but almost everywhere else, too-on glass, plastic, roof tiles, ironmongery, sealed roads, and even abandoned cars. This book explains how a lichen's partners interact, shows what lichens look like on the outside and how they're built on the inside, and recounts the bizarre uses that they've been put to over the centuries. Illustrated with more than 700 photographs, drawings, and microscope views.
Pages : 307
Publisher : Micro-Optics Press
Publication date : 2018
Subjects: Non-fiction, Published in New Zealand, New Zealand, Science And Technology, NZ Natural History, Biology, Botany & Plant Sciences