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Desert Bryophytes

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Bryophyte Ecology

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This is a tale of ignorance; my own and other people’s. Knowledge of desert bryophytes is so incomplete, and the publications so fragmentary that I have had to rely largely on my own observations in Australia. Most of these have been made in or near the Big Desert in north-west Victoria, which is neither big (by world, or even Australian standards) nor a true desert.

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    A. J. E. Smith

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Scott, G.A.M. (1982). Desert Bryophytes. In: Smith, A.J.E. (eds) Bryophyte Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5891-3_4

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