Mosses are a dominant ground cover in a wide array of ecosystems, especially in those developing under cold-stressed environments such as arctic and alpine ice-melting glacial forelands. Consequently, mosses may influence ...

Bryophytes, including mosses, liverworts and hornworts are early land plants that have evolved key adaptation echanisms to cope with abiotic stresses and microorganisms. Microbial symbioses facilitated plant colonization ...

Biological soil crusts are communities composed of mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria. They cover a large portion of the arid and semiarid regions of the world and play key roles in nutrient cycles and soil erosion diminution. ...

Biocrusts presented their highest expression in the inter-patches. However, an increase in the level of aridity along the landscape could lead to vascular plants to make a notable influence on the spatial distribution of ...