Category Archives: Non classé

What is a lichen? You will find below the audio and the text of the walk ! Have a good adventure ! PS: Small correction of the audio, the rhizines are represented by the letter “e” and not the letter “d” on the diagram (see below in the text). The problem was that we didn’tContinue reading “1. Ambiorix Square🍃”

The complexity of lichens and their forms You will find below the audio and the text of the walk! Have a good adventure ! So far, we learned that a lichen is a symbiotic form between a fungus and an alga…  A nice discovery ! But it is not that simple. The world of fungiContinue reading “2. Michelangelo Avenue”

The importance of lichens Below you will find the audio and text of the walk !Have a good adventure ! What do you think ? How important are lichens ? We pass by lichens every day without realising their presence. But why should these small organisms matter to us ? Lichens are pioneer species –Continue reading “3. Cinquantenaire Park 🍁”

Symbiosis Below you will find the audio and text of the walk !Have a good adventure ! PS: The name of the man who opened the doors to the discipline of genetics is Gregor Mendel, not George Mendel (which is stated in the audio above). What happens when human exceptionalism and the idea of individualismContinue reading “4. Leopold Park 🍂”

Air pollution and lichens Below you will find the audio and text of the walk ! Have a good adventure ! What do you think is the link between lichens and air pollution? As we said earlier an organism is affected by its environment and in turn alters its habitat. This is what ecologists study, the relationshipContinue reading “5. Leopold Park, behind EU buildings”

Lichens and medicine  Below you will find the audio and the text of the content of the walk ! Have a good adventure ! A little bit of history…. The evolution of the lichen symbiosis is interesting because the co-evolution of the alga and the fungus has taken place several times at different periods and forContinue reading “6. Luxembourg Place 🌻”

The reproduction of lichens  Below you will find the audio and text of the walk !Have a good adventure! Note: In the audio, I talk about the presence of the lichen Melanohalea exasperatula. I misspell it – always complicated these Latin names ! You now have the name if you ever want to do moreContinue reading “7. Meeûs Square”

The identification of lichens  Below you will find the audio and text of the walk !Have a good adventure ! To identify lichens, two criteria are important:  The forms of the lichen : foliose, crustose, fruticose, leprose(see Stop 2, here for more info) The reproduction methods (see the previous stop (7) here for more info) Other details are importantContinue reading “8. Royal Park”

End of the walk Below you will find the audio and text of the walk !Have a good adventure ! We have reached the end of the walk. Thank you for participating and joining until the end of this adventure. Thanks also for having opened your ears and your eyes to discover this peculiar organismContinue reading “9. Sablon Place”