Assertion: lichen | /r/AtLocation | rock
Facets:
value: typically
type: DEGREE
value: in a brazilian cloud forest
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: A lichen growing on a rock in a Brazilian cloud forest
text: They grow on rock, walls, gravestones, roofs, exposed soil surfaces, and in the soil as part of a biological soil crust.
text: Like the word moss, the word lichen is also used as an uncountable noun, as in, "Lichen grows on rocks".
text: It can survive when plants can’t, and typically grows on rough surfaces like rocks or old fences.
text: Lichens resemble strange-shaped moss or mold growing on trees and rocks.
text: It can survive when plants can’t and can grow on rough surfaces like rocks or old fences.
text: Lichens growing on rocks, though, may release chemicals which speed the degradation of the rock into soil, and thus promote production of new soils.
text: Lichens growing on rocks (saxicolous lichens) can grow on top of rocks (epilithic) also inside the rock (endolithic).They can cause both biophysical and biochemical weathering effects to rocks .Epilithic and endolithic lichens can physically weaken the rocks by drying and re hydration.
text: It can survive when plants can’t, and typically grows on rough surfaces like rocks or old fences.