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Unique Mosses Spur Conservation, Ecotourism in Chile

Read details here: <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061114-chile-mosses.html>.

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Digitization project promises lichens and mosses at our fingertips (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Read details here: <http://www.news.wisc.edu/19609>.

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Drivers of bryophyte diversity allow implications for forest management with a focus on climate change

Raabe S., Müller J., Manthey M., Dürhammer O., Teuber U., Göttlein A,, Förster B., Brandl R. and Bässler C., 2010. Drivers of bryophyte diversity allow implications for forest management with a focus on climate change. Forest Ecology and Management 260 … Continue reading

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New Bryophyte Guide

A recently self-published book on bryophytes is entitled “A Trailside Guide to Mosses and Liverworts of the Cherokee National Forest” by Paul G. Davison with contributions from Mark J. Pistrang.  This has been reported to be a useful field guide … Continue reading

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Moss Fossils

Click here for more information on moss fossils.

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The Seattle region’s coldest April on record is a boon for moss (Seattle Times)

Bryophiles may find this article and photograph (?Pohlia nutans (Hedw.) Lindb.) pertaining to bryophytes in the Seattle area to be of interest.  More information on bryophytes in Seattle may be found in Arthur Lee Jacobson’s website, The Cryptogamic Carpet—Mosses in … Continue reading

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Poster of Illinois Bryophytes

http://bryophytes.plant.siu.edu/bryoposter.html

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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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