The Santa Monica Mountains, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean just west of Los Angeles, California, have low elevation, high relief and a Mediterranean climate. To date 122 species of bryophytes have been found, especially in the moist drainages. Species that were common (about half of the 122) were compared in terms of microhabitat variables (substrate softness, moisture, slope and shadiness) and ...

The earliest land plants faced a suite of abiotic stresses largely unknown to their aquatic algal ancestors. The descendants of these plants evolved two general mechanisms for survival in the relatively arid aerial environment. While the vascular plants or 'tracheophytes' developed tissue specializations to transport and retain water, the other main lineages of land plants, the bryophytes, reta...

Bryophytes are a group of small, non-vascular plants that include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts [...]

The antimicrobial activity of aqueous and ethanolic extracts of 11 Bryophyta species and 9 Marchantiophyta species collected in Latvia was tested against Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Bacillus cereus. The extract of Lophocolea heterophylla inhibited the growth of B. cereus, but none of the tested extracts inhibited the growth of E. coli. 70% of bryophyte species demonstrated certa...

Bryophytes are a major component of the ecosystem in Indonesia. Due to their sensitiveness, abundance and diversity bryophytes an influenced by environmental conditions. This study aimed determine based on ecological parameters village Blumah Kecaman Plantungan, Kendal Regency which is directly adjacent Mount Prau protected forest, Central Java. The data collection method used was exploratory d...

The book explores the nutritional, biological, pharmacological and ecological effects of bioactive compounds found in Bryophytes Pteridophytes.

Springs, as unique ecotonal habitats between surface and hypogean areas, are considered endangered aquatic ecosystems due to direct indirect human impacts climate change issues. They distinctive water that often inhabited by a diverse but mostly stenotypic group of organisms. The present study 31 springs from the Apuseni Mountains (the Romanian Carpathians) were classified rheocrene, helocrene,...

Figure 1. Adelanthus decipiens with fresh, green branches and older, decomposing brown branches. Photo by Michael Lüth. Decomposition If you were to ask the average person to name a plant that decays at the bottom while the top is green and continues to grow, most would have no clue or tell you that's not possible. These people, like most of my beginning students, when defining plants, have for...