Bryophyte biogeography

J Patiño, A Vanderpoorten - Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Bryophytes include about 20,000 species characterized by their poikilohydric condition, high
long-distance dispersal capacities, and cold tolerance. Despite these specific life-history …

Global ambient air quality monitoring: Can mosses help? A systematic meta-analysis of literature about passive moss biomonitoring

S Chaudhuri, M Roy - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2024 - Springer
Surging incidents of air quality-related public health hazards, and environmental
degradation, have prompted the global authorities to seek newer avenues of air quality …

The moss growth optimization (MGO): concepts and performance

B Zheng, Y Chen, C Wang, AA Heidari… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Metaheuristic algorithms are increasingly utilized to solve complex optimization problems
because they can efficiently explore large solution spaces. The moss growth optimization …

Basking in the sun: how mosses photosynthesise and survive in Antarctica

H Yin, AV Perera-Castro, KL Randall… - Photosynthesis …, 2023 - Springer
The Antarctic environment is extremely cold, windy and dry. Ozone depletion has resulted in
increasing ultraviolet-B radiation, and increasing greenhouse gases and decreasing …

Unveiling the nature of a miniature world: a horizon scan of fundamental questions in bryology

J Patiño, I Bisang, B Goffinet, L Hedenäs… - Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Half a century since the creation of the International Association of Bryologists,
we carried out a review to identify outstanding challenges and future perspectives in …

Emerging biological archives can reveal ecological and climatic change in Antarctica

JM Strugnell, HV McGregor, NG Wilson… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change is causing observable changes in Antarctica and the
Southern Ocean including increased air and ocean temperatures, glacial melt leading to sea …

Photosynthesis on the edge: photoinhibition, desiccation and freezing tolerance of Antarctic bryophytes

AV Perera-Castro, J Flexas… - Photosynthesis …, 2021 - Springer
In Antarctica, multiple stresses (low temperatures, drought and excessive irradiance)
hamper photosynthesis even in summer. We hypothesize that controlled inactivation of PSII …

Meta‐analysis of Antarctic phylogeography reveals strong sampling bias and critical knowledge gaps

XP Liu, GA Duffy, WS Pearman, LR Pertierra… - Ecography, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Much of Antarctica's highly endemic terrestrial biodiversity is found in small ice‐free patches.
Substantial genetic differentiation has been detected among populations across spatial …

Patterns of spatio-temporal paraglacial response in the Antarctic Peninsula region and associated ecological implications

J Ruiz-Fernández, M Oliva, D Nývlt, N Cannone… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Antarctic Peninsula (AP) constitutes the warmest region of Antarctica, although
98% of the surface is still covered by glaciers. The region shows contrasting geographic and …

Exploring the plant environmental DNA diversity in soil from two sites on Deception Island (Antarctica, South Shetland Islands) using metabarcoding

M Carvalho-Silva, LH Rosa, OHB Pinto… - Antarctic …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The few Antarctic studies to date to have applied metabarcoding in Antarctica have primarily
focused on microorganisms. In this study, for the first time, we apply high-throughput …