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Composite organisms formed by the symbiosis between species of fungi and an algae. They are either crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks, stone walls, roofs or garden paths. Because they have no actual roots they get their sustenance from the atmosphere and rainwater. Lichens play an important role in the detection and monitoring of pollution, especially sulphur dioxide, as they are highly sensitive to pollution and different species disappear if pollution reaches specific levels. (Source: WRIGHT)

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Wirth V, Kondratyuk SY 2010. Neue Arten der Flechtenfamilie Teloschistaceae aus der Namibwüste und der Sukkulenten-Karoo (SW-Afrika). Herzogia 23 179-194

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New species of the lichen family Teloschistaceae from the Namib Desert.pdf	144.11 KB

Williamson G 1993. A preliminary check-list of lichens occuring in the Sperrgebiet (Diamond Area No. 1) in Namibia with observations on communities and distribution.

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A preliminary check_list of lichens occuring in the Sperrgebiet_1993.pdf	7.06 MB

Scholz H 1972. The soils of the central Namib desert with special consideration of the soils in the vicinity of Gobabeb. Madoqua 2 (1) 33-51

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The soils of the central Namib Desert with special consideration of the soils in the vacinity of Gobabeb.pdf	4.15 MB

Giess W 1989. Einiges zu unserer Flechtenflora. Dinteria 20 30-32

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Dinteria_20_1989_3.pdf	489.54 KB

Wessels DCJ 1989. Lichens of the Namib Desert, South West Africa/Namibia. I. The chasmoendolithic habitat. Dinteria 20 3-22

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Dinteria_20_1989_1.pdf	2.61 MB

Joubert JJ, Steyn PL, Britz TJ, Wessels DCJ 1982. Chemical composition of some lichen species occurring in the Namib Desert, South West Africa. Dinteria 16 33-43

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Chemical composition of some lichen species occurring in the Namib Desert_1982.pdf	1.36 MB

Maphangwa KW, Musil CF, Raitt L, Zedda L 2012. Differential interception and evaporation of fog, dew and water vapour and elemental accumulation by lichens explain their relative abundance in a coastal desert. Journal of Arid Environments 82 71-80

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196312000535

Zedda L, Gröngröft A, Schultz M, Petersen A, Mills A, Rambold G 2011. Distribution patterns of soil lichens across the principal biomes of southern Africa. Journal of Arid Environments 75 (2) 215-220

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Distribution patterns of soil lichens across the principal biomes of southern Africa.pdf	1017.4 KB

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196310002739

Lalley JS, Viles HA Recovery of lichen-dominated soil crusts in a hyper-arid desert. 17 1 (1-20) 2008

Website link:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-007-9153-y

Evaluated publications containing records of lichens and lichenicolous fungi of Namibia, Preliminary version 1 June 2008.

Website link:http://www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de/checklists/africa/namibia_p.htm

Lange OL, Meyer A, Zellner H, Heber U 1994. Photosynthesis and Water Relations of Lichen Soil Crusts: Field Measurements in the Coastal Fog Zone of the Namib Desert. Functional Ecology 8 (2) 253-264

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2389909

Schieferstein B, Loris K 1992. Ecological investigations on lichen fields of the Central Namib. Vegetation 98 (2) 113-128

Website link:https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00045550

Lange OL 2002. Photosynthetic productivity of the epilithic lichen Lecanora muralis: Long-term field monitoring of CO2 exchange and its physiological interpretation. I. Dependence of photosynthesis on water content, light, temperature, and CO2 concentration from laboratory measurements. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 197 (4) 233-249

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253004700249

Lange OL 2003. Photosynthetic productivity of the epilithic lichen Lecanora muralis: long-term field monitoring of CO2 exchange and its physiological interpretation: III. Diel, seasonal, and annual carbon budgets. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 198 (4) 277-292

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253004700717

Lange OL 2003. Photosynthetic productivity of the epilithic lichen Lecanora muralis: long-term field monitoring of CO2 exchange and its physiological interpretation: II. Diel and seasonal patterns of net photosynthesis and respiration. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 198 (1) 55-70

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253004700523

Lalley JS, Viles HA, Henschel JR, Lalley V 2006. Lichen-dominated soil crusts as arthropod habitat in warm deserts. Journal of Arid Environments 67 (4) 579-593

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140196306000978

Zedda L, Schultz M, Rambold G 2009. Diversity of epiphytic lichens in the savannah biome of Namibia. Herzogia 22 153 - 164

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Diversity of epiphytic lichens in the savannah biome of Namibia.pdf	2.06 MB

Wirth V, Kärnefelt I, Thell A, Gessner U 2005. Caloplaca testudinea V. Wirth & Kärnefelt sp. nov. and C. rubelliana (Ach.) Lojka, new to southern Africa. Mycological Progress 4 (4) 299 - 302

Website link:http://www.springerlink.com/content/j50g10066w24pn86/

Rundel PW 1978. Ecological Relationships of Desert Fog Zone Lichens. The Bryologist 81 (2) 277 - 293

Website link:http://www.jstor.org/pss/3242189

Lange OL, Green TGA, Meyer A, Zellner H 2007. Water relations and carbon dioxide exchange of epiphytic lichens in the Namib fog desert. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 202 (6) 479 - 487

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0367253007000643

Lange OL, Green TGA, Melzera B, Meyera A, Zellner H 2006. Water relations and CO2 exchange of the terrestrial lichen Teloschistes capensis in the Namib fog desert: Measurements during two seasons in the field and under controlled conditions. Flora-Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants 201 (4) 268 - 280

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S036725300500143X

Lalley JS, Viles HA, Copeman N, Cowley C 2006. The influence of multi-scale environmental variables on the distribution of terricolous lichens in a fog desert. Journal of Vegetation Science 17 (6) 831 - 838

Website link:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2006.tb02506.x/abstract

Lalley JS, Viles HA 2005. Terricolous lichens in the northern Namib Desert of Namibia: Distribution and community composition. The Lichenologist 37 (1) 77 - 91

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Terricolous lichens in the northern Namib Desert of Namibia.pdf	317.99 KB

Lalley JS, Viles HA 2006. Do vehicle track disturbances affect the productivity of soil-growing lichens in a fog desert?. Functional Ecology 20 (3) 548 - 556

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Do vehicle track disturbances affect the productivity of soil_growing lichens in a fog desert.pdf	328.75 KB

Bungartz F, Wirth V 2006. Uellia peregrina sp. Nov., A new, euendolithic calcicolous lichen species from the Namib Desert. The Lichenologist 39 (01) 41 - 45

Website link:http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online%26aid%3D611572

Craven P 1988. Lichens diversity in Namibia. Biological Diversity of Namibia: A country study 114-115

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299471532_Lichens_diversity_in_Namibia

Dyakov MY, Insarova ID, Kharabadze DE, Ptushenko VV, Shtaer OV 2015. Influence of extreme ambient temperatures and anaerobic conditions on Peltigera aphthosa (L.) Willd. viability. Life Sciences in Space Research 7 66-72

Website link:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552415000838

Hinchliffe G, Bollard-Breen B, Cowan D, Doshi A, Gillman LN, Maggs-Kölling G, de los Ríos A, Pointing SB 2017. Advanced Photogrammetry to Assess Lichen Colonization in the Hyper-Arid Namib Desert. Frontiers in Microbiology (8)

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Advanced Photogrammetry to Assess Lichen Colonization in the Hyper_Arid Namib Desert.pdf	3.48 MB

Wirth V, Loris K, Müller J 2007. Lichens in the fog zone of the Central Namib and their distribution along an ocean in-land transect. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (95) 555-582

Website link:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263965792_Lichens_in_the_fog_zone_of_the_Central_Namib_and_their_distribution_along_an_ocean_in-land_transect

Lange OL, Green TGA, Meyer A, Zellner H 2008. Epilithic Lichens in the Namib Fog Desert: Field Measurements of Water Relations and Carbon Dioxide Exchange. Sauteria (15) 283-302

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Epilithic Lichens in the Namib Fog Desert.pdf	2.45 MB

Wessels DCJ, Wessels LA, Holzapfel WH 1979. Preliminary Report on Lichen-Feeding Coleoptera Occurring on Teloschistes capensis in the Namib Desert, South West Africa. The Bryologist (82) 270-273

Website link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3242084

Wirth V, Bungarz F 2009. Lecidelletum crystallinae, a lichen community on gypsum crusts of the Namib Desert including the new species Buellia sipmanii. Bibliotheca Lichenologica (99) 405-410

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Lecidelletum crystallinae_a lichen community on gypsum crusts of the Namib Desert.pdf	782.25 KB

Wirth V 2010. Flechtengesellschaften der Namibwüste. Carolinea (68) 49-60

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Flechtengesellschaften der Namibwueste.pdf	531.4 KB

Schultz C 2006. Remote sensing the distribution and spatiotemporal changes of major lichen communities in the Central Namib Desert.

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Remote sensing the distribution and spatiotemporal changes of major lichen communities in the Central Namib Desert.pdf	18.74 MB

Hale ME, Vobis G 1978. Santessonia, a new lichen genus from Southwest Africa. Botaniska Notiser (131) 1-5

Website link:http://www.westerdijkinstitute.nl/Indoor/BioloMICS.aspx?Link=T&TableKey=14682616000000067&Rec=186422&Fields=All

Isotype of Santessonia namibensis Hale & Vobis [family Physciaceae]. Botanische Staatssammlung München (M).

Website link:https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.m0069084

Kärnefelt I 1988. Two closely related species of Caloplaca (Teloschistaceae, Lichenes) from the Namib Desert. Bothalia (18) 51-56

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Two closely related species of Caloplaca from the Namib Desert.pdf	1.45 MB

Sérusiaux E, Wessels DCJ 1984. Santessonia (Lecanorales, Buelliaceae) in the Namib desert (South West Africa). Mycotaxon (19) 479-502

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Santessonia the Namib desert.pdf	15.14 MB

Wirth V, Müller J, Pfiz M, Loris K, Küppers M 2010. Lichen distribution along an ocean-inland transect in the fog zone of the Central Namib. Biodiversity in southern Africa, 2: Patterns and processes at regional scale 112-117

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Lichen distribution along an ocean_inland transect in the fog zone of the Central Namib.pdf	1.55 MB

Jung P, Baumann K, Lehnert LW, Samolov E, Achilles S, Schermer M, Wraase LM, Eckhardt K-U, Bader MY, Leinweber P, Karsten U, Bendix J, Büdel B 2019. Desert breath - How fog promotes a novel type of soil biocenosis, forming the coastal Atacama Desert's living skin. Geobiology 00 1–12

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How fog promotes a novel type of soil biocenosis.pdf	1.83 MB

Zedda L, Gröngröft A, Schultz M, Petersen A, Mills A, Rambold G 2010. Patterns of soil lichen diversity along the BIOTA transects in relation to climate and soil features. Biodiversity in southern Africa. Volume 2: Patterns and processes at regional scale 100–106

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Patterns of soil lichen diversity along the BIOTA transects in relation to climate and soil features.pdf	1.89 MB

Beckett RP 1998. Some aspects of the water relations of the lichen Xanthomaculina hottentotta (Ach.) Hale from the Namib Desert. South African Journal of Botany 64 (6) 346-349

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Some aspects of the water relations of the lichen Xanthomaculina hottentotta from the Namib Desert.pdf	1.35 MB

Schultz M, Zedda L, Rambold G 2009. New records of lichen taxa from Namibia and South Africa. Bibliotheca Lichenologica 99 315-334

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New records of lichen taxa from Namibia and South Africa.pdf	582.57 KB

Lalley JS 2005. Lichen-dominated soil crusts in the hyper-arid Namib Desert: Anthropogenic impacts and conservation implications.

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Lichen_dominated soil crusts in the hyper_arid Namib Desert_Anthropogenic impacts and conservation implications.pdf	6.47 MB

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The influence of multi_scale environmental variables on the distribution of terricolous lichens in a fog desert.pdf	249.65 KB

de los Ríos A, Garrido‑Benavent I, Limón A, Cason ED, Maggs-Kölling G, Cowan D, Valverde A 2022. Novel lichen‑dominated hypolithic communities in the Namib Desert. Microbial Ecology 83 (4) 1-13

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Novel lichen_dominated hypolithic communities in the Namib Desert_2022.pdf	1.09 MB

Clancey PA 1977. On the southern limits of Anthus novaeseelandiae lichenya Vincent, 1933. Durban Museum Novitates 11 (14) 263 - 264

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On the southern limits of Anthus novaeseelandiae lichenya Vincent_1933.pdf	224.49 KB

Craven P, Kolberg H 2022. Provisional checklist of Lichens in Namibia: Presence in Namibia derived from literature.

Website link:http://www.the-eis.com/atlas/?q=plant-information-system-resources

Marques J, Santarem F, Brito JC 2023. Stellarangia namibensis (Teloschistaceae) out of the Namib Desert. Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 80 (1) e137

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Mayrhofer H, Wirth V 2011. Rinodina australiensis (lichenized Ascomycetes, Physciaceae) recorded from Africa. Herzogia 24 (1) 53-57

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Mayrhofer_Wirth_Herzogia_2011.pdf	1.85 MB