crustose lichens.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

These pink surfaces are all crustose coralline algae growing on the sea floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biology of early life stage of tropical reef corals] Reference

A newly settled coral recruit of Stylophora pistillata on crustose coralline algae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biology of early life stage of tropical reef corals] Reference

He was mainly interested in algae, although we were also looking at small fish around small reefs and crustose sponges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloomberg: Intelligent Design and inferior education - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Along the coastal stretch are compact gravel deserts devoid of vegetation except for colorful fields of foliose and crustose lichens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kaokoveld desert] Reference

There are about 1,700 kinds of plants in the arctic and subarctic, and these include: low shrubs, sedges, reindeer mosses, liverworts, and grasses, 400 varieties of flowering plants, crustose and foliose lichen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tundra biome] Reference

An additional 10,350 ha, from 1,700 m to 2,020 m, supports isolated individuals of parahebes Parahebe sp., gentian Gentiana gellidifolia, buttercup and others, although above 2,000 m the only obvious plants are crustose lichens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tongariro National Park, New Zealand] Reference

Their disproportionate impacts stem from their voracious appetite for sea urchins, herbivorous invertebrates whose feeding on kelps in turn determine whether rocky bottoms will become dominated by large kelps (in the absence of urchins) versus by crustose calcified algae (in the presence of urchins).    From Wordnik.com.  [Keystone species] Reference

The kelp beds facilitated by sea otter predation on urchins offer both abundant food and physical structure in which fishes and other animals can grow and escape their predators, whereas the crustose algal “pavements” that develop in the absence of sea otters leave the bottom with no structure and little plant biomass to support other animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keystone species] Reference

Average reflectance spectra from crustose coralline algae (CCA).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Reindeer lichen have hollow stocks called podetia which extend from the granular crustose thallus at the base in branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

In contrast, interaction zones between corals and crustose coralline algae (CCA) were not hypoxic and the coral tissue was consistent across the colony.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

In structure, the thallus is crustose, and the thalli vary from inconspicuous, evanescent conditions to those which are conspicuous and sometimes even subsquamulous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V] Reference

As usual in crustose forms, the thalli are composed of hyphae which are densely disposed toward the upper, exposed surface and more loosely disposed toward the lower surface (Fig. 2).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V] Reference

Thallus crustose, without plectenchymatous cortex (Fig. 2, a), varying from granulose and often evanescent to conspicuous, areolate, or even subsquamulose conditions, attached to the substratum by hyphal rhizoids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V] Reference

On new substrates, rapid grazing by ocean surgeonfish and princess parrotfish kept communities in an early successional stage dominated by short, filamentous algae and crustose coralline algae that did not suppress coral growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Oh? spongiform crustose thingies, or what?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloomberg: Intelligent Design and inferior education - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

In contrast, the interactions between corals and crustose coralline algae (CCA) did not show any evidence of hypoxia (.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

C) Montipora sp. and various algae, D) crustose coralline algae vs. crustose coralline algae, and E) diverse interactions including coral, fleshy algae, crustose coralline algae, and other invertebrates. doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0008043.g001.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

crustose thingies for work….    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloomberg: Intelligent Design and inferior education - The Panda's Thumb] Reference