Understanding mechanisms that generate range limits is central to knowing why species are
found where they are and how they will respond to environmental change. There is growing …

This paper provides an overview of bioclimatic models applied to lichen species, supporting
their potential use in this context as indicators of climate change risk. First, it provides a brief …

The popular dual definition of lichen symbiosis is under question with recent findings of
additional microbial partners living within the lichen body. Here we compare the distribution …

Aim Lichens and mosses play important functional roles in all terrestrial ecosystems,
particularly in tundra and drylands. As with all taxa, to maintain their current niche in a …

Lichens provide valuable systems for studying symbiotic interactions. In lichens, these
interactions are frequently described in terms of availability, selectivity and specificity of the …

Holobionts are dynamic ecosystems that may respond to abiotic drivers with compositional
changes. Uncovering elevational diversity patterns within these microecosystems can further …

Symbiosis plays a fundamental role in nature. Lichens are among the best known, globally
distributed symbiotic systems whose ecology is shaped by the requirements of all symbionts …

Natural products can contribute to abiotic stress tolerance in plants and fungi. We
hypothesize that biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), the genomic elements that underlie …

Range expansion results from complex eco‐evolutionary processes where range dynamics
and niche shifts interact in a novel physical space and/or environment, with scale playing a …

The implementation of HTS (high-throughput sequencing) approaches is rapidly changing
our understanding of the lichen symbiosis, by uncovering high bacterial and fungal diversity …