Ecology and Disturbances in Bryophytes

Landscape Ecology and Natural Disturbances: Relationships to Biodiversity

Ministry of Forests Research Program Natural disturbance statistics grab your attention: • Hurricane-force winds flatten over   ha of forest land on northern Vancouver Island in the winter of . • Small isolated “hot spots” of mountain pine beetle infestations are detected in southwestern British Columbia in the early s. These infestations irrupt rapidly a decade later into massive ...

Phylogeny and diversification of bryophytes.

The bryophytes comprise three phyla of embryophytes that are well established to occupy the first nodes among extant lineages in the land-plant tree of life. The three bryophyte groups (hornworts, liverworts, mosses) may not form a monophyletic clade, but they share life history features including dominant free-living gametophytes and matrotrophic monosporangiate sporophytes. Because of their u...

Bryophytes, and Pteridophytes in Tropical Ecosystems

Introduction to Bryophytes

Bryophytes mark a pivotal step in land plant evolution, and their significance in the regulation of ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity is becoming increasingly acknowledged. This introductory textbook assumes no prior knowledge of bryophyte biology, making it ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for amateur botanists. The authors expertly summarize the...

Chloroplast Genomes of Bryophytes

Since the availability of first complete DNA sequence of chloroplast genome of Marchantia polymorpha several studies to determine the structure and organization of chloroplast genomes of various plant groups have been made. However the lineage sampling of bryophytes are poorly represented in complete chloroplast genome sequences (only three liverworts, two mosses and one hornwort). This review ...