Desiccation tolerance refers to the exceptional ability of certain bryophytes and land plants to survive near-complete water loss, a trait that is pivotal to their survival in harsh, arid environments ...

Cloud forests have been found to lose more nitrogen in stream discharge than they gain from atmospheric deposition. They also support a large diversity and biomass of tree epiphytes, predominately ...

1. Stand structure, mean tree age, deadwood amount and microclimate all change markedly in the course of natural forest dynamics. The last remaining primeval forests of the temperate forest biome are ...

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 ...

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 ...

His research focuses on bryophyte systematics and evolution, the use of bryophytes as indicators of environmental change, and their potential applications in forensic science. He has published ...

A team of researchers have demonstrated how moss can act as a forensic ‘fingerprint’ when confirming details about a crime ...

Moss is ancient. It evolved some 470 million years ago, long before the first dinosaur hatched. It is so rudimentary that it lacks both flowers and roots, yet it is an expert at survival. Now, that ...

A new Atlas of Living Australia grant will help digitise 16,000 plant specimens at Macquarie University, filling critical ...