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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.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2001]
©2001

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 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Reference Material  R 579.7097 BRODO    In-Library Use Only
Description xxiii, 795 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 alkaline paper
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