These oft-overlooked plants are so important in ecosystems ... in the arctic and in deserts”). A good example of the varied growing conditions bryophytes can persist in is on the oaks in ...

As they are not flowering plants, bryophytes reproduce by spores instead ... “Peat moss, for example, and especially the species Sphagnum, covers 8% of the territory of the province of Québec ...

That plants like bryophytes influenced the formation of ... But plants can speed up the production of clays, for example, by secreting organic acids that change soil chemistry.

Non-vascular bryophytes live in colonies that cover the ground and resemble tiny forests. In a real forest, plants compete for light in different layers of the canopy. If a plant does not receive ...

Scientists from the University of Alberta found samples of 400-year-old plants known as bryophytes (plants like moss and liverworts that lack vascular tissue for transporting liquids) alive thanks ...

Most of the 470-million-year history of plants on land belongs to bryophytes, pteridophytes ... with ‘simple’ bilaterian taxa (for example, platyhelminths and nemerteans) being displaced ...

Samples of 400-year-old plants known as bryophytes have flourished under laboratory conditions. Researchers say this back-from-the-dead trick has implications for how ecosystems recover from the ...