Template:Did you know nominations/Usnea articulata

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The result was: promoted by cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 22:26, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

Usnea articulata edit

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Usnea articulata

... that the string-of-sausage lichen is very sensitive to air pollution and has become locally extinct over much of its former range? Source: "Now frequent only in southwest England where it is found from the New Forest west to central Cornwall. It was formerly recorded from a number of sites in the English Midlands and in the North East of England but its sensitivity to sulphur dioxide resulted in its rapid extinction from these areas at the start of the industrial revolution." + "It has been rendered extinct in many parts of mainland Europe, surviving in Brittany. "

Reviewed: Francis Hews

Created by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 09:24, 28 October 2018 (UTC).

New enough (less than seven days old), long enough (minimum of 1,500 characters excluding block quotes, headers, images and captions), hook is interesting enough, cited, and verified conforms to DYK policy, and QPQ requirement met. Arius1998 (talk) 00:34, 30 October 2018 (UTC)

"Key to European Usnea species" (PDF). Retrieved 30 October 2018.

"Air Quality and Lichens". Retrieved 30 October 2018.