Lichens occur in most terrestrial ecosystems; they are often present as minor contributors,
but in some forests, drylands and tundras they can make up most of the ground layer …

Occult precipitation events (fog, dew and light rain) can alter plant water and nutritional
status, both directly through the aerial uptake of surface water and nutrients, and indirectly …

Epiphytes have the potential to modify the canopy environments in which they grow.
Accurately evaluating the impact of epiphytes can be challenging, since plants without …

Questions Popular methods to analyse community–trait–environment relationships constrain
community patterns by trait and environment relationships. What if some traits are strongly …

Fog collectors can enable us to alleviate the water crisis in certain arid regions of the world.
A continuous fog-collection cycle consisting of a persistent capture of fog droplets and their …

Lichens in the Arctic play important ecological roles. They also face the threats of increasing
fire and shrub and tree expansion, exacerbated or caused by climate change. These forces …

Foliar uptake of water from the surface of leaves is common when rainfall is scarce and non-
meteoric water such as dew or fog is more abundant. However, many species in more mesic …

Lichens hold water inside (internal pool) and outside their body (external pool). Yet, external
pool size is not known in hair lichens dominating boreal forest canopies. Here we quantify …

Links between lichen morphology, internal/external water storage and distribution patterns
are poorly known. We compared mass-(WC,% H 2 O) and area-based (WHC, mg H 2 O cm …

Abstract The Atacama Desert is one of the driest and probably oldest deserts on Earth where
only a few extremophile organisms are able to survive. This study investigated two …