Peter R. Nelson

TL;DR: Based on an updated phylogeny using the ITS fungal barcoding locus, Cora is now recognize 189 taxa in a genus that until recently was considered to represent a single species; including this contribution, 92 of these are formally recognized, including five taxa based on historical names or collections that have not been sequenced.

TL;DR: Different combinations of lichen functional traits peaked along environmental and disturbance gradients, which the authors interpreted as balancing energy generation, water relations, vegetative dispersal and habitat specificity, which informed mechanisms behind community assembly.

TL;DR: The independent development of similar dendroid thallus architecture in different fungal suborders with different photobionts represents a clear and previously overlooked example of convergent evolution in lichens.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine field measurements, Landsat observations, and quantitative cover maps for tundra plant functional types (PFTs) to characterize multi-decadal succession and landscape change after fire in lichen-dominated upland tundras of the YKD, where extensive wildfires occurred in 1971-1972, 1985, 2006-2007 and 2015.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used non-parametric multiplicative regression to capture the non-linear relationships between vegetation cover and spectral and environmental data, and obtained spectral signatures for more than 700 vegetation monitoring plots in Denali from Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery.