Buried alongside the famous Ötzi the Iceman are at least 75 species of bryophytes -- mosses and liverworts -- which hold clues to Ötzi's surroundings, according to a new study. Buried alongside the ...

Modern Farmer: What motivated you to start Mountain Moss? ‘Every time I see the bulldozers, my heart aches for all of the plants that got destroyed.’ Annie Martin: I had a two-pronged stimulus. Number ...

Large mammals and exotic plants get all the attention, and conservation efforts are often directed at protecting them. Who who protects our mosses? This often-neglected group of non-vascular lower ...

Frozen mosses that were buried under glaciers 400 years ago have now been regrown. Surprisingly, the hardy “bryophytes” required no special techniques to regenerate. That means they might be ...

When life gets tough, nature usually finds a way to help the little guys. Plants experience intense competition from their neighbors. To better survive restricted light conditions, it is common for ...

Forget your favorite flowers, because we’re talking all about the mean green sporing machines. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we dive into the first few branches of plants’ phylogenetic ...

Bryophytes are an important part of our environment, but in the tropics, there’s still much to learn about them. Vanessa Crooks Bryophytes in the tropics are threatened due to lack of information and ...

This is an engaging, informative and beautifully illustrated field guide, the first ever published to focus on England's endangered bryophytes I've always loved mosses and spent many hours studying ...

Bryophytes make up a full 25% (1/4) of all understory biomass That’s equivalent to 1% of the aboveground tree biomass—a tiny fraction in size, but massive in significance when scaled across millions ...

Buried alongside the famous Ötzi the Iceman are at least 75 species of bryophytes—mosses and liverworts—which hold clues to Ötzi's surroundings, according to a study released October 30, 2019 in the ...