Research Article

Molecular Evidence for the Wide Distribution of Two Lineages of Terrestrial Green Algae (Chlorophyta) over Tropics to Temperate Zone

Figure 1

Sampling sites. (a) Young spruce forest in the Swabian Alb, (b-c) wall sections of castle Gleichen (Germany), (b) sun-exposed wall area, (c) inner face of a scale from a dark basement vault (the white arrow shows the sampled green biofilm), (d-e) biofilm samples from concrete walls in a World War II bunker on the North Sea offshore island Helgoland, (e) sampled green biofilm in detail, (f-g) tropical submountain rainforest in Ecuador (the study site in Bombuscaro, 1000 m a.s.l.), and (g) green biofilms on tree bark in detail.
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