Lichen -- Old-Growth Forest (IMAGE)

Canadian Museum of Nature

Lichen -- Old-Growth Forest

Caption

Sphaerophorus globosus (coral lichen), a readily identifiable lichen, on the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador. This lichen has been demonstrated to usefully discriminate between old-growth and second-growth forests in Nova Scotia, Canada).

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Troy McMullin

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