Thirty-three years after the fire, a place that formerly contained substantial moss (20 percent) and fruticose lichens (7 percent) remains almost free of those species.
e360.yale.edu This, the lichen's type locality, was later paved and the population presumably destroyed.
en.wikipedia.org It is tundra consisting mostly of very low-growing grasses, rushes, forbs, mosses, lichens, and liverworts.
en.wikipedia.org Reindeer lichen, like many lichens, is slow growing (35 mm per year) and may take decades to return once overgrazed, burned, trampled, or otherwise consumed.
en.wikipedia.org One notable experiment tested the ability of lichen to survive in space.
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