Monthly Archives: March 2011

Fossils of earliest land plants discovered in Argentina

Read about 470-million year old liverwort spores here.

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An invasive cost

Read more about invasive species and the liverwort, green blackwort here.

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When plants conquered land

First came moss, then … (read more here).

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New ‘lookouts’ for climate change

Read about how “Corries high in the Scottish mountains are to become “lookout posts” in an effort to better monitor the effects of climate change” here.

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Moss in a different light

Read the article on moss here.

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Single peatmoss colonizes western North America

An article published in Molecular Biology presents a unique report on Sphagnum in North America.  Details appear in BBC Earth News and the journal article information is presented below: One haploid parent contributes 100% of the gene pool for a … Continue reading

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The Plant List

Near the end of the 2010 United Nations International Year of Biodiversity, the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew) announced the completion of The Plant List. This is a working list of all land … Continue reading

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Using moss to clean up pool water.

This is a good article. Click Here

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