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Author Brodo, Irwin M.

Title Lichens of North America / Irwin M. Brodo, Sylvia Duran Sharnoff, Stephen Sharnoff ; with selected drawings by Susan Laurie-Bourque and published in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Nature.

Imprint New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  579.7097 B785l 2001    ---  Available
Description xxiii, 795 p. : col. ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 765-769).
Contents Lichens : the organism -- How lichens are built : thallus shapes and structure -- How lichens reproduce -- Colors of lichens -- How lichens live : physiology and growth -- Lichen chemistry -- Where lichens grow : their substrates -- Lichens and ecosystems -- Geographic distributions in North America -- Lichens and people -- Environmental monitoring with lichens -- Naming and classifying lichens -- Collecting and studying lichens -- Using this book to name a lichen : hints and conventions.
Subject Lichens -- North America -- Identification.
Lichens -- North America -- Pictorial works.
Added Author Sharnoff, Sylvia Duran, 1944-
Sharnoff, Stephen, 1944-
Canadian Museum of Nature.
ISBN 0300082495 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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