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Abstract Bryophytes attain maximum relative importance in terms of biomass and production in the tundra biome. They contribute an average of 30% to the vegetation cover across a broad range of tundra sites, but often reach 100% cover in wetter and more protected situations. Figures for bryophyte phytomass span several orders of magnitude depending on severity of habitat conditions. Very high standing crops reflect organic matter accumulation due to low decomposition rates at the wettest sites. Initial annual loss rates are commonly below 10% in bryophyte-dominated habitats throughout the tundra. Bryophyte production ranges from less than 1 gm−2 yr−1 in polar desert, to more than 1000gm−2yr−1 at wetter sites in the sub-Antarctic where a long growing season prevails. However, many published values for tundra bryophyte production are based on suspect methodology and cannot be accurately compared between sites. The new generation of lightweight field-portable equipment for measuring gas exchange and microclimatic variables provides the potential for improving our knowledge of bryophyte productivity in relation to environmental factors in the tundra biome. It is unfortunate, therefore, that the emphasis has shifted away from bryophyte autecological studies at important northern sites where increasing human impact is threatening this fragile biome type. Biomass, polar desert REFERENCES ALEKSANDROVA , V. D. 1970 . The vegetation of the tundra zones in the U.S.S.R. and data about its productivity . In Fuller W. A. & Kevan P. G. (Eds), Productivity and Conservation in Northern Circumpolar Lands : 93 – 114 . Morges, Switzerland : I.U.C.N . Google Scholar Google Preview OpenURL Placeholder Text WorldCat COPAC ALEKSANDROVA , V. D. 1980 . The Arctic and Antarctic: their Division into Geobotanical Areas . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . 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Abstract Knowledge about bryophyte production and phytomass in the tropics is poor and has been derived principally from studies of epiphytic bryophytes. Such work has been undertaken in Transvaal, Tanzania, Venezuela, Peru and Borneo. Except for the studies in Peru and Borneo, the vegetation types studied and the methods used have been too variable to allow many comparisons or generalizations to be made. However, in general it can be stated that phytomass of epiphytic bryophytes in equatorial latitudes increases from the tropical lowlands to the foreslline. This striking phenomenon has been hypothetically explained by gradients of factors such as precipitation, humidity, temperature and desiccation, or combinations of these. 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Abstract Three basic questions arc addressed in this paper. Each of them considers a separate aspect of moss growth and production. A common theme throughout is that moss populations are dynamic, highly active entities. The study of these dynamics can tell us not only about the mosses themselves but also about the systems in which they live. The following conclusions are reached. (1) Moss populations are organized into complex canopies, some having at least 6000 leaves cm“‘. Drought-tolerant mosses may achieve high rates of growth when moist, but generally are dry and inactive a large percentage of lime. (2) For the ectohydric, drought-tolerant moss, Hylocomium splendens, growth is highly variable over its North American boreal range and can be related to precipitation and continentality. However, for the endohydric, less drought-tolerant moss, Polytrichum strictum, growth is more constant over its North American range and is not as distinctly related to broad macroclimatic patterns. It may have nutrient limited growth, whereas Hylocomium splendens may have climatically limited growth. (3) (a) In mires, calcium, magnesium, sodium and hydrogen ions are important chemical factors that are closely correlated to mire type. Available amounts of nitrate, ammonium, phosphorus and total organic nitrogen in surface waters do not correlate with mire type; likewise, they do not increase across the bog-rich fen gradient. Extreme-rich fens and bogs have about the same concentrations of these components, but water-flow differences may modify the total nutrient input during a season in fens, (b) Moss production in extreme-rich fens is similar to, or somewhat less than, in bogs and poor fens. However, decomposition is much greater in extreme-rich fens. Peat accumulation may, therefore, be greater in bogs and poor fens than in extreme-rich fens, (c) Net production on bog hummocks is about half that of hollows, whereas in poor fens and rich fens, production on hummocks is greater than or equal to that in the hollows. Decomposition in poor fens and bogs is much less on hummocks, while there are few differences between height extremes in rich fens. Hummocks appear to be maintained in bogs due to low decomposition rates, while in rich fens they are maintained by relatively high production, (d) Production rates of Sphagnum species are generally similar to or higher than those of brown mosses. Different species of Sphagnum dominate different parts of the chemical and topographic gradients in bogs while different brown moss species dominate parts of comparable gradients in rich fens. Biogeochemistry, brown moss, fen, hummock, Hylocomium splendens, mires, Sphagnum REFERENCES ANDRUS , R. E. , WAGNER , D. J. & TITUS , J. E. 1982 . 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Abstract In the main features of their carbon metabolism and physiological responses, bryophytes behave as normal C3 plants. However, their small size and frequent poikilohydric habit have important effects on the context in which these characteristics are expressed, and on their environmental physiology. Many are tolerant of drying out to low water contents (c. 5–10%, of dry weight). Photosynthesis declines rapidly with water loss, and resumes with greater or lesser delay on remoistening. The rate and completeness of recovery depend on the intensity and duration of desiccation, and on drought-hardening (perhaps largely related to protection of cell components from oxidative damage) which lakes place as the bryophyte dries. Most bryophytes, including species of well-illuminated habitats, function in effect as shade plants, with low chlorophyll a/b ratios, and become light-saturated at relatively low irradiance. Boundary-layer resistance is critically important in determining water loss from bryophytes in many situations. The time for which a poikilohydric species can photosynthesize after rain is determined by storage capacity and rate of water loss, both strongly influenced by growth-form. In sheltered habitats with extensive bryophyte cover water loss is largely determined by radiation balance, and may be very slow in deeply shaded places. Bryophyte growth-forms must represent an adaptive balance between water economy and needs for light capture and carbon and mineral nutrient acquisition. Poikilohydry, desiccation hardening, evapotranspiration, life-form REFERENCES ABEL , W. O. 1956 . Die Austrocknungsresistenz der Laubmoose. Sitzungsberichte der Öslerrekhischen Akademie der Wissenschaften . Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Abt. 1 , 165 : 619 – 707 . OpenURL Placeholder Text WorldCat ALPERT , P. 1988 . 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Abstract Bryophytes live in microhabitats determined by the physical environment, usually modified by the vascular plant vegetation, and seemingly in ‘ecological isolation’ from other plants. However, bryophytes are involved in a variety of competitive, parasitic, symbiotic, mutualistic and as yet unspecifiable interactions with vascular plants, algae, fungi, lichens, cyanobactcria and autotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria. In only very few cases have these interactions been analysed functionally. Yet, such information may be essential for a better understanding of (1) such aspects of bryophyte ecology as mineral nutrition, carbon economy, herbivory, and growth and development of the gametophyte, and (2) the ecological role of bryophytes in terrestrial ecosystems. Competition, mycorrhiza, nitrogen fixation, parasitism, saprophytism, seed predation, seedling emergence, symbiosis REFERENCES ASAKAWA , Y. , TOYOTA , M., TAKEMOTO , T., FUJIKI , H. & SUGIMURA , T. 1980 . 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Abstract Observations in the held suggest that moss shoots are seldom freely consumed by either vertebrate or invertebrate herbivores, but damage to immature capsules by slugs is abundant. Palatability of the mosses Mnium hornum, Brachythecium rutabulum and Funaria hygrometrica to the generalist herbivores, Arion subfuscus and A. rufus was investigated by offering the slugs four stages in the moss life cycle; protonema, leafy shoot, immature capsule and mature capsule. The slugs showed a preference for immature capsules and protonemata in all moss species tested. Consumption of shoots of M. hornum and B. rutabulum was negligible even after seven days starvation, but some shoots of F. hygrometrica were eaten in every overnight trial performed. Shoot extracts on starch-wafer substrate appeared to be more acceptable than intact shoots suggesting that the cell wall provides the barrier to free consumption. The form and location of a possible feeding deterrent is discussed. 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Abstract The Splachnaceae is the only moss family in which entomophily has been observed. There are three kinds of adaptation for entomophily: (1) adaptations to substrates of animal origin, (2) morphological adaptations and (3) chemical adaptations. Species of Sptachnum and the entomophilous species of Tayloria are restricted to the dung of herbivorous mammals. Species of Tetraplodon grow on skeletal remains, on antlers, on stomach pellets of predatory birds, or on dung, which contains both bone and hair. The entomophilous species Aplodon wormskioldii grows on corpses, on caribou (reindeer) dung, bones and antlers, on owl pellets, or on enriched gravel. Cultivation experiments indicate that protonema and shoots of Splachnum sphaericum have a greater tolerance for concentrated dung liquid than the control species Physcomitrium pyrij'orme, Funaria hygrometrica and Pohlia nutans. Tetraplodon mnioides, A. wormskioldii and Splachnum vasculosum have higher nitrogen contents in their tissues than do other arctic bryophytcs and the levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and calcium in the plant tissues of T. mnioides and A. wormskioldii reflect those of their substrata. The adaptation to grow on osmotically concentrated substrates confers a selective advantage upon these species. Morphological adaptations of the sporophyte are the enlarged, coloured neck (hypophysis), the coloured upper region of the seta, and the hygroscopic movements of the urn wall and peristome which help the spores to leave the urn. The small, thin-walled spores are dispersed in clumps on the hairs of visiting flies. Chemical adaptations are the odours produced and released by the sporophyles. Several volatile compounds have been found in the urn and hypophysis of entomophilous species, volatile octane derivatives and organic acids such as acetic, propionic and butyric acids particularly in the hypophysis. Volatile compounds may be released through the many stomata of the hypophysis. The seta, the gametophyte and the substratum do not contain these compounds. Flies which are attracted to and visit species of Splachnum in Europe and North America include Scatophaga furcala, (Scatophagidae), Pyrellia cyanicolor, Myospila metida (Muscidae) and Delia platura (Anthomyidae). The most common visitors to Tetraplodon mnioides are Delia platura and species of the Muscidae. Scatophagids have been found to benefit from a possible increase in copulatory success after visiting these plants. Entomophilly in the Splachnaceae can be regarded as chemical mimicry. Other organisms that mimic faecal/carrion odours to attract flies to disperse the spores include the macrofungus Phallus impudkus. 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Abstract Direct information on nutrient cycling through bryophytes is limited and often incomplete. Evidence bearing on the sources and pathways by which nutrient elements are acquired (e.g. aerial deposition, throughfall and substratum) and lost (e.g. leaching and decomposition) is critically discussed. The need to distinguish between the extracellular and intracellular location of elements is emphasized. The involvement of microorganisms and the problems of accurately measuring decomposition are considered. A summary is given of recent laboratory work on the internal redistribution of elements in Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus and of field experiments involving fertilizer addition to Pseudoscleropodium purum; their significance is assessed. Cellular location, decomposition, fertilizers, leaching, nutrient supply, microorganisms, translocation REFERENCES AKANDÉ , A. O. , OLARINMOYE , S. O. & EGUNYOMI , A. 1985 . Nutrient studies of some corticolous bryophytes in Nigeria . 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