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Lichens adaptation to climate change
The pace at which modern climate change is proceeding will vastly exceed the rate at which Trebouxia climatic niches have previously evolved.
Lichens Could Need More than a Million Years to Adapt to Climate Change
Contrasting Patterns of Climatic Niche Divergence in Trebouxia—A Clade of Lichen-Forming Algae
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Lichens Could Need More than a Million Years to Adapt to Climate Change

The composite organisms, formed from the symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae, are crucial members of myriad ecosystems

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