Up in the Tree – The Overlooked Richness of Bryophytes and Lichens in Tree Crowns

Assessing diversity is among the major tasks in ecology and conservation science. In ecological and conservation studies, epiphytic cryptogams are usually sampled up to accessible heights in forests. Thus, their diversity, especially of canopy specialists, likely is underestimated. If the proportion...

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Main Authors: Boch, Steffen, Müller, Jörg, Prati, Daniel, Blaser, Stefan, Fischer, Markus
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3866205/