Lichen Content / Lichen Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en Lichens Slow to Return After Wildfire /climate/news/lichens-slow-to-return-after-wildfire <p><span><span><span>Lichen communities may take decades — and in some cases up to a century — to fully return to chaparral ecosystems after wildfire, finds a study from the University of California, Davis, and Stanford University. </span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ddi.13295">The study</a>, published today in the journal Diversity and Distributions, is the most comprehensive to date of long-term lichen recolonization after fire. </span></span></span></p> May 10, 2021 - 11:00am Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/lichens-slow-to-return-after-wildfire Lichens Are Losing to Wildfire, Years After Flames Are Gone /climate-science/news/lichen-losing-wildfire-years-after-flames-are-gone <p>As increasingly hot and severe wildfires scorch the West, some lichen communities integral to conifer forests aren’t returning, even years after the flames have been extinguished, according to a study from scientists at the University of California, Davis.</p> August 09, 2018 - 2:44pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate-science/news/lichen-losing-wildfire-years-after-flames-are-gone