Multiphase chemistry plays a vital role in the Earth system, climate, and health. Chemical
reactions, mass transport, and phase transitions between gases, liquids, and solids are …

Community ecology has experienced a major transition, from a focus on patterns in
taxonomic composition, to revealing the processes underlying community assembly through …

Premise Bryophytes form a major component of terrestrial plant biomass, structuring
ecological communities in all biomes. Our understanding of the evolutionary history of …

Soil mosses are among the most widely distributed organisms on land. Experiments and
observations suggest that they contribute to terrestrial soil biodiversity and function, yet their …

The progressive oxygenation of the Earth's atmosphere was pivotal to the evolution of life,
but the puzzle of when and how atmospheric oxygen (O2) first approached modern levels …

Soil photoautotrophic prokaryotes and micro‐eukaryotes–known as soil algae–are, together
with heterotrophic microorganisms, a constitutive part of the microbiome in surface soils …

Abstract Information on understory composition and its relationships with the overstory tree
canopy, especially leaf area index (LAI), is crucially needed in, eg, modeling land …

Non-vascular vegetation has been shown to capture considerable quantities of rainfall,
which may affect the hydrological cycle and climate at continental scales. However, direct …

Nonvascular photoautotrophs (NVP), including bryophytes, lichens, terrestrial algae, and
cyanobacteria, are increasingly recognized as being essential to ecosystem functioning in …

Lichens and bryophytes may significantly affect global biogeochemical cycles by fixation of
nitrogen and biotic enhancement of surface weathering rates. Most of the studies suggesting …