bryophytes

These ancient redwood forests and their tree-tops support myriad lichens, bryophytes and mosses as well as other vascular plants like salmonberry, huckleberry and Rhamnus trees growing some 240 feet above the earth.

Dr. Reese Halter: Saving the Remaining Old Growth Redwood Forests 2010

Higher peaks and ridges exposed to moisture-laden trade winds support an elfin, or dwarf forest characterized by thick mats of bryophytes covering short, dense gnarled trees.

Talamancan montane forests 2010

Poorer soils carry a dense vegetation of tree heathers, giant senecios Senecio erici-rosenii and S. adnivalis and the giant lobelias Lobelia bequaertii and L. wollastonii, floored with ferns, mosses and lycopodiums and festooned with bryophytes.

Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda 2009

The diversity of arctic terrestrial animals beyond the latitudinal treeline (6000 species) is nearly twice as great as that of vascular plants and bryophytes [20] (Table 7.2).

Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009

New records of bryophytes and pteridophytes have emerged in Costa Rica.

Central American dry forests 2009

Over 70 plant communities have been described and mapped for the Park, their classification being based on dominant species as influenced by geology and climate, more than 40 being recorded from the Blue Mountains National Park alone in which over 1000 species of flowering plant and 346 bryophytes occur.

Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia 2009

Boreal and antarctic bryophytes usually show high levels of variation [26], but the partitioning of genetic variation among and within populations depends on species.

Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels 2009

The diversity of arctic animals beyond the latitudinal treeline (~6000 species) is nearly twice as great as that of vascular plants and bryophytes.

Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009

Genetic phylogeographical studies provide evidence for relatively fast migration rates in most vascular species [2] and possibly bryophytes as well [3].

Genetic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels 2009

These areas contain unusually high levels of species richness for diverse taxa (e.g., invertebrates, bryophytes, lichens, fungi, vascular plants, and vertebrates) relative to other ecological reporting areas within the Columbia River Basin.

Central and Southern Cascades forests 2009