Thick lichen layer on a mound of a peatland at Khanymey Research Station, Western Siberia
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Thick lichen layer on a mound of a peatland at Khanymey Research Station, Western Siberia

by Laurent Orgogozo, University of Toulouse - Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse, France

In this discontinuous permafrost area the highest, driest mounds of peatlands are often covered by a 10-20 cm thick layer of Cladonia sp. lichen.