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New ‘lookouts’ for climate change

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Brian

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

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Brian

Read the article on moss here.

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Single peatmoss colonizes western North America

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Brian

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

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Brian

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.

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Brian

This is a good article. Click Here

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The Main Types of Bryophytes

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Brian

There are approximately 20,000 species of non-vascular plants traditionally referred to collectively as the bryophytes (although some experts claim as many as 23,000 species and there are 47,600 validly published bryophyte names).  Modern research has indicated that this is not … Continue reading →

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Moss Critters Gallery

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Brian

Here are images of the types of creatures that may be found in association with bryophytes (images for illustrative purposes of major invertebrate groups only, these may not be the actual species associated with bryophytes): And some videos: Tardigrades (Vimeo) … Continue reading →

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Early History of Bryology

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Brian

A German botanist, Johann Jacob Dillen (Dillenius) (1687-1747) was an early contributor to bryology, arranging mosses and other plants into genera in his Catalogus plantarum sponte circa Gissam nascentium and Historia Muscorum.  His illustration of Lichenastrum imbricatum majus is considered … Continue reading →

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