Percent of ground cover in boreal forest that can be provided by the feather moss Pleurozium schreberi (with its epiphytic cyanobacteria)
| Value | 80 % |
|---|---|
| Organism | Feather moss Pleurozium schreberi |
| Reference | Adams DG, Duggan PS. Cyanobacteria-bryophyte symbioses. J Exp Bot. 2008 59(5):1047-58. doi: 10.1093/jxb/ern005 p.1048 right column top paragraphPubMed ID18267939 |
| Comments | "These nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial associations with mosses often supply most of the combined nitrogen in local ecosystems in the Arctic, the Antarctic, and boreal forest regions (Zielke et al., 2002, 2005). This may be particularly significant in boreal forests where the feather moss Pleurozium schreberi (with its epiphytic cyanobacteria) can provide 80% of the ground cover (DeLuca et al., 2002, 2007 Zackrisson et al., 2004 Gentili et al., 2005)." |
| Entered by | Uri M |
| ID | 109175 |