Bryophytes promote the development of soil function on karst rock surfaces [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionBryophytes is a pioneer plant in the development of karst ecosystems and plays an important role in altering the surface environment of rocks.
Wen-ping Meng +5 more
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Large-Scale Illegal Bryophyte Harvesting in Protected Areas of East-Central Europe, Hungary: Conservation Implications [PDF]
PlantsThis study provides the first detailed documentation of large-scale illegal bryophyte harvesting within a European nature conservation site. Forested areas of Northeast Hungary are recurrently affected by such activities, with several cases already ...
Péter Szűcs +2 more
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Bryophyte Community Composition and Diversity as Bioindicators of Elevational Zonation in Tropical Rainforests in Hainan Island, China [PDF]
PlantsAlthough mountain vertical vegetation belts are key in revealing the response to climate change and the maintenance mechanism of biodiversity, traditional field surveys and remote sensing methods face significant limitations in the structurally complex ...
Xin Su +6 more
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Positive effects of forest fragmentation per se on bryophyte diversity in subtropical fragmented forests: evidence from land-bridge islands [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionHabitat fragmentation (Sensu lato) represents a landscape-scale process involving both habitat loss and the breaking apart of habitat (habitat fragmentation per se).
Dandan Li +8 more
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Canopy Height and Epiphytic Bryophytes Shape Fungal Communities in a Temperate Rainforest [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionFungal communities contribute to plant ecology and evolution in forested ecosystems. Their diverse interactions with associated host plants can vary along abiotic and biotic gradients, but these gradients are poorly understood in complex natural ...
Laurel Renee Humphreys +2 more
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Species-specific interactions in avian–bryophyte dispersal networks
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Studies from seed plants have shown that animal dispersal fundamentally alters the success of plant dispersal, shaping community composition through time. Our understanding of this phenomenon in spore plants is comparatively limited.
Matthew W. Chmielewski, Sarah M. Eppley
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Nest building in titmice Paridae: Selectivity in bryophyte use
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 In many bird species, reproductive success is dependent on nest quality. However, detailed data on nest composition are scarce, and quantitative analyses have generally used only rough categories, without species identification.
Knut Rydgren +3 more
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Impact of land-use intensity and productivity on bryophyte diversity in agricultural grasslands. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 While bryophytes greatly contribute to plant diversity of semi-natural grasslands, little is known about the relationships between land-use intensity, productivity, and bryophyte diversity in these habitats.
Jörg Müller +5 more
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Cyanobacteria-bryophyte symbioses [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Botany, 2008 Cyanobacteria are a large group of photosynthetic prokaryotes of enormous environmental importance, being responsible for a large proportion of global CO(2) and N(2) fixation. They form symbiotic associations with a wide range of eukaryotic hosts including plants, fungi, sponges, and protists.
David G, Adams, Paula S, Duggan
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The European Zoological Journal, 2021 A considerable number of avian species tend to use bryophytes as nest construction material, but the selectivity of birds in their bryophyte use in nest construction in relation to the availability of particular mosses in individual territories remains ...
M. Glądalski +7 more
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