Your group’s ideas to record the lichens based on phenotypes is smart! It seems difficult to truly identify the correct species of lichen based on how it looks, and I’m sure any “field guides” could be very outdated, incorrect, or practically impossible to make. I wonder if there is a website/project similar to this Fungal Diversity Survey (https://fundis.org/observe)? This would provide identification resources and gives civilian lichenologists a place to send their samples for DNA testing in hopes of creating a more comprehensive database.
Your group’s ideas to record the lichens based on phenotypes is smart! It seems difficult to truly identify the correct species of lichen based on how it looks, and I’m sure any “field guides” could be very outdated, incorrect, or practically impossible to make. I wonder if there is a website/project similar to this Fungal Diversity Survey (https://fundis.org/observe)? This would provide identification resources and gives civilian lichenologists a place to send their samples for DNA testing in hopes of creating a more comprehensive database.
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