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"},"content":{"rendered":"Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment<\/em><\/a> Authors:<\/strong> Troy McMullin, Canadian Museum of Nature –\u00a0tmcmullin@mus-nature.ca<\/a>; Yolanda Wiersma, Memorial University of Newfoundland – ywiersma@mun.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Published\u00a0March 5, 2019 00:00 ET (News release from the Canadian Museum of Nature) Suites of lichens associated with known old-growth areas can be used to help scientists and communities decide which areas to keep and which to cut. The scorecard of lichen species could be used as a tool […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1IS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6632,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions\/6632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPublished\u00a0March 5, 2019 00:00 ET<\/strong> (News release<\/a> from the Canadian Museum of Nature)
\nSuites of lichens associated with known old-growth areas can be used to help scientists and communities decide which areas to keep and which to cut. The scorecard of lichen species could be used as a tool by conservation biologists and forest mangers \u2013 the more species that depend on old-growth forest, then the higher the forest’s conservation value.<\/p>\n