Woollybear Lichens

• growth habit

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/growthHabit
  • Definition: general growth form, including size and branching. Some organisms have different growth habits depending on environment or location
  • Attribution: Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 12, July 2012. Glossary: http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/apweb/top/glossarya_h.html#habit PLANTS Database Growth Habits Codes and Definitions: https://plants.usda.gov/growth_habits_def.html

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  lichenous

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/lichenous
  • Definition: Organism generally recognized as a single organism that consists of a fungus and an alga or cyanobacterium living in symbiotic association. Often attached to solid objects such as rocks or living or dead wood rather than soil.
  • Attribution: Modified from PLANTS Database Growth Habits Codes and Definitions: https://plants.usda.gov/growth_habits_def.html

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• habitat

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
  • Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x

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  terrestrial

  • URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000446
  • Definition: A biome that applies to the terrestrial realm.

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• number of public records in bold

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/NumberPublicRecordsInBOLD
  • Definition: number of records in this clade in the Barcode Of Life Database (BOLD)

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• trophic guild

  • URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TrophicGuild
  • Definition: A group of species that exploit the same food resources, and/or use the same feeding or foraging methods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild_(ecology)

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  osmotroph

  • URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2601246
  • Definition: uptake of dissolved organic compounds by osmosis for nutrition

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Woollybear lichens includes 1 child:

• Polychidium muscicola (Sw.) Gray (polychidium lichen)
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