{"title":"Keep on working: the uneven documentation of regional moss floras","authors":"J. Mutke, Jan Laurens Geffert","doi":"10.11646/BDE.31.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/BDE.31.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"We analysed documented moss species numbers on a global scale with the aim to identify regions or countries with possibly under-documented moss floras. European units (countries, administrative units) in general have much higher documented species numbers than extra-European units with similar area sizes. Especially South American and African units have relatively low documented species numbers. This is in contrast to the overall continental moss floras of these regions, which are almost twice as species rich compared to Europe. We identified possibly under-documented geographical units in each continent based on negative outliers in species-area plots. There is a negative correlation of species richness with the area of desert or grassland biomes in a geographical unit. Based on our dataset, the question of the existence of a general latitudinal gradient of increasing moss diversity with decreasing latitude has to be denied","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"31 1","pages":"7-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64848227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new and updated bryophyte checklist for Distrito Federal (Brasília, Brazil)","authors":"P. Câmara, Abel Eustáquio Rocha Soares","doi":"10.11646/BDE.31.1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/BDE.31.1.27","url":null,"abstract":"A new and update checklist for the area known as Distrito Federal in Central Brazil is presented here. The area’s original vegetation is the Cerrado (Brazilian Savanna) and is seriously threatened and poorly collected. This checklists presents 149 species among 79 genera, an increase of 35 new occurrences from the previous one, also the list was cleaned for synonyms and voucher were checked. Also two new families and 13 new genera are cited.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"31 1","pages":"171-174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64848376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Schistidium frahmianum (Bryopsida, Grimmiaceae), a new arctic species from Beringia","authors":"R. Ochyra, O. M. Afonina","doi":"10.11646/BDE.31.1.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/BDE.31.1.22","url":null,"abstract":"Schistidium frahmianum Ochyra & Afonina sp. nov . is described and illustrated as a new species from Chukotka in the Russian Far East and Alaska in North America. The species belongs within subg. Canalicularia Ochyra and is closely related to S. agassizii Sull. & Lesq. but is immediately distinct in its costa which is longly excurrent as a stout terete subula and variously bistratose laminal cells at the leaf shoulders. Schistidium frahmianum is an Arctic species restricted in its occurrence to Beringia.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"48 1","pages":"139-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64847883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using data of bryophyte mapping projects for nature conservation purposes - a case study from Saxony","authors":"F. Müller","doi":"10.11646/BDE.31.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/BDE.31.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"The results of a bryophyte mapping project carried out in Saxony between 1980 and 2004 were evaluated in cases of nature conservation. The following questions were analysed: the relation of frequency and threat of species; the threat of species in different biotope types; differences in the ecological characteristics of Red List species in comparison with unthreatened species using the Ellenberg’s indicator values and the hemerobie status; main reasons for decline and threat of Red List species; changes in the classification in the different editions of the Red Lists of Saxony and their reasons, mainly the decline and increase of species; the allocation of distribution centres of threatened bryophytes of selected biotope types.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"31 1","pages":"14-21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64848414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global relationships and European phylogeography in the Kindbergia praelonga complex (Brachytheciaceae, Bryophyta)","authors":"L. Hedenäs","doi":"10.11646/BDE.31.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/BDE.31.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"Variation in tRNA-Gly and ITS from 85 and 88 specimens, respectively, reveal that the widespread pleurocarpous moss Kindbergia praelonga (Hedw.) Ochyra sensu lato consists of three species. Kindbergia praelonga s. str. was sampled from Europe, Macaronesia, western North America, and the Southern Hemisphere. Low levels of haplotype variation and no unique haplotypes outside Europe-Macaronesia could potentially be explained by recent introductions outside this region. Most of the American specimens differ from K. praelonga s. str. in three ITS and six tRNA-Gly ‘missing’ haplotypes, and despite rather similar morphologies these most likely represent separate species. The included Chinese specimens deviate even more strongly from both K. praelonga s. str. and the American taxon. Kindbergia brittoniae (Grout) Ochyra and K. dumosa (Mitt.) Ignatov & Huttunen may be the correct names for the American and Asiatic taxa, but this requires further studies to be confirmed. In K. praelonga s. str. one complex of haplotypes is only found in Macaronesia and the central, western part of Europe. Since the variation within this complex is relatively smaller than among the remaining European-Macaronesian material despite that its position closer to the root of the network suggests a higher age, it is suggested that populations of this complex were strongly reduced during the last glaciation maximum and thereby lost a substantial portion of its haplotype variation.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"21 1","pages":"81-90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64847347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Myriocoleopsis in Southeast Asia","authors":"T. Pócs","doi":"10.11646/BDE.31.1.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/BDE.31.1.18","url":null,"abstract":"A molecular investigation by Wilson et al. (2006) showing the close relationship between the neotropical Myricoleopsis gymnocolea (Spruce) Reiner & Gradst. and Cololejeunea vuquangensis Pocs & Ninh. from Vietnam, instigated the author to reexamine the latter species. The morphological and anatomical characters of Cololejeunea vuquangensis support its transfer to the genus Myriocoleopsis and the new combination of Myriocoleopsis vuquangensis (Pocs & Ninh) Pocs, comb. nov. is proposed. This is the first record of the South American genus Myriocoleopsis from Asia and a remarkable extension of its known distribution.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"31 1","pages":"123-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64847251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mannia pilosa (Aytoniaceae, Marchantiophyta) — new to the Japanese Flora","authors":"T. Katagiri, H. Masuzaki, T. Masuzawa, H. Deguchi","doi":"10.11646/BDE.31.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/BDE.31.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"Mannia pilosa (Hornem.) Frye & L.Clark, a circumpolar species widely distributed in arctic-alpine regions was newly found from Mt. Kitadake, with its 3192 m peak the second highest mountain in Japan. Plants of M. pilosa were growing in an alpine meadow on a limestone outcrop about 400 m south of the peak at 35°40’ N, 138o 14’ E, ca. 3000 m alt. The isolated Japanese population for M. pilosa seems to be a glacial relict. New information on spore morphology using SEM and habitat of the Japanese plants is provided.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"31 1","pages":"76-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64847284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Physcomitrella patens genome – a first stepping stone towards understanding bryophyte and land plant evolution","authors":"A. K. Beike, S. Rensing","doi":"10.11646/BDE.31.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/BDE.31.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"Physcomitrella patens Hedw. (Bruch & Schimp.), a species belonging to the Funariaceae, is the first bryophyte the genome of which has been completely sequenced. In addition, the species became a model organism for evolutionary-developmental studies. These qualities of P. patens enable the comparison of genomic features across a very broad range of land plants and allow to infer changes that occurred during early land plant evolution. As hybridization and polyploidization occurs frequently among the Funariaceae, P. patens is also an ideal model to compare these mechanisms of genome evolution among land plants. In order to close the remaining gaps between algae and flowering plants in terms of complete genome sequences, it will be necessary to sequence further representatives from other early diverging land plant lineages. The first such additional projects are now proceeding with the cosmopolitan moss Ceratodon purpureus and the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha . In this article we shall review what the P. patens genome may teach us about land plant evolution and which additional species might be useful to explore in future.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"31 1","pages":"43-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64848164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bryophytes of the Águas Claras Ecological Park, DF, Brazil Brioflora do Parque Ecológico e de Múltiplos Usos Águas Claras, DF, Brasil","authors":"Abel Eustáquio Rocha Soares, M. Guimarães","doi":"10.11646/BDE.32.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/BDE.32.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"Aguas Claras is a fast growing suburban area of Brasilia municipality, Federal District. The Ecological and Multiple Uses Aguas Claras Park is one of the few places where the local population can enjoy the nature. This work presents the inventory of the bryophytic community of this park, contributing to the knowledge of the bryophytes of the Federal District. Overall, twenty four species were found, organized in eighteen genera and fifteen families. Eighteen of which are mosses (Bryophyta) and six are hepatics (Marchantiophyta). Entodontopsis nitens (Mitt.) W.R.Buck & Ireland, Erythrodontium longisetum (Hook.) Paris, Fissidens intromarginatus (Hampe) A. Jaeger and Lophocolea mandonii Stephani are new citations to the Federal District. A key is presented to the species found in the park.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"32 1","pages":"87-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64848738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bryophyte diversity on tree trunks in montane forests of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia","authors":"Robbert Gradstein, H. Culmsee","doi":"10.11646/BDE.31.1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/BDE.31.1.16","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have shown that submontane forests of Sulawesi harbor a very rich bryophyte flora, with more than 150 species occurring on eight canopy trees. We explore the relationships of trunk base bryophyte communities with elevation and tree characteristics (tree diameter, bark roughness) in montane forests of Sulawesi. The study showed that submontane, lower montane and upper montane forests of Sulawesi are characterized by very different bryophyte taxa. Calymperaceae, Fissidentaceae, Hypopterygiaceae, Lejeuneaceae, Leucobryaceae, Lophocoleaceae, Meteoriaceae, Neckeraceae, Porellaceae, Pterobryaceae Radulaceae and Thuidiaceae are mainly found at low elevations, while Herbertacaeae, Lepidoziaceae, Mastigophoraceae, Scapaniaceae, Schistochilaceae and Trichocoleaceae predominate at high elevations. Lejeuneaceae are the most important family in submontane and lower montane forests in terms of number of species, and Lepidoziaceae in upper montane forest. Plagiochilaceae are prevalent in lower montane forest. In general, species richness of liverworts increases towards higher elevation whereas moss richness decreases. Similar trends are observed elsewhere in the Tropics. Trunk community similarity decreases with distance and is about 25% between Sulawesi and Borneo, and virtually nil across continents. A few species showed a significant preference for rough bark but none for smooth bark. In general, trees with rough bark had more species than those with smooth bark. Trunk diameter correlated with the distribution of a few species but not with community composition or species richness. Our data are first statistically-supported evidence for bark roughness and trunkdiameter specificity of bryophyte diversity in tree-species rich tropical forest.","PeriodicalId":93270,"journal":{"name":"Bryophyte diversity and evolution","volume":"31 1","pages":"95-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64847126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}