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The acceptability of mosses as food for generalist herbivores, slugs in the Arionidae
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Shoot extracts on starch-wafer substrate appeared to be more acceptable than intact shoots suggesting that the cell wall provides the barrier to free consumption, and the form and location of a possible feeding deterrent is discussed.About:
This article is published in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society.The article was published on 1990-09-01. It has received 46 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Arionidae & Funaria hygrometrica.read more
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Comparative Cryptogam Ecology: A Review of Bryophyte and Lichen Traits that Drive Biogeochemistry
TL;DR: Comparative cryptogam ecology has the potential to meet some of the important challenges of understanding and predicting the biogeochemical and climate consequences of large-scale environmental changes driving shifts in the cryptogams components of vegetation composition.
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Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes
TL;DR: The 2003 Cary Conference on Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes as mentioned in this paper focused on the generation and importance of spatial heterogeneity in Ecosystems and landscapes and the relationship between environmental heterogeneity and transport processes.
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Bryophytes and nutrient cycling
D. H. Brown,Jeffrey W. Bates +1 more
TL;DR: A summary is given of recent laboratory work on the internal redistribution of elements in Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus and of field experiments involving fertilizer addition to Pseudoscleropodium purum; their significance is assessed.
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The role of spores in reproduction in mosses
C. J. Miles,R. E. Longton +1 more
TL;DR: The facility for vegetative reproduction and reproduction by spores was compared in four common mosses by observations on naturally occurring spores, sporclings and juvenile shoots combined with experimental field plantings, showing contrasting life-history strategies shown by the four species.
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Recent developments of commercial products from bryophytes
TL;DR: Bryophyte extract has effects on human pathogenic fungi and may cure skin diseases, but currently are not sold for that purpose, however, a patent has been obtained to cure fungal infections of horses with bryophytes extract that shows antifeedant effects against slugs.
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Plant Strategies and Vegetation Processes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present plant strategies in the established phase and the regenerative phase in the emerging phase, respectively, and discuss the relationship between the two phases: primary strategies and secondary strategies.
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The Ecology of Sphagnum
R. S. Clymo,P. M. Hayward +1 more
TL;DR: Sphagnum plants grow at the apex, as do most other mosses, and develop into branches of determinate growth, though in a few cases (S. cuspidatum var. plumosum for example), the branches may themselves branch.
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Secondary compounds as protective agents
TL;DR: Insect Chemoreceptors, Insect-deterrent Properties of Secondary Compounds, and the Complexity of Allelopathy.
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A field guide to the land snails of Britain and north-west Europe
M. P. Kerney,R. A. D. Cameron +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe and illustrate nearly 300 species of slug and snail found in Britain and North-West Europe, including notes on diagnostic characteristics, habitats and range, and general information on the whole species group: their structure, reproduction, habits and feeding.
Life strategies of Bryophytes: a preliminary review
TL;DR: An attempt is made to compare bryophyte Ufe histories with recent models of life strategies of animals and phanerogams, highlighting the balance between sexual and asexual reproduction, the reproductive effort spent on both kinds of reproduce, the size and number of the spores, and annual production and standing crop.