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Tropical Forest Bryophytes

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Bryophyte Ecology

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The tropical forests were known for a long period simply as an inexhaustible El Dorado of new bryophyte species and we did not know much about their ecology. Even in the 1950s Richards (1954), a known authority on bryophyte ecology, complained about the scantiness of our knowledge about the bryophyte communities in the tropical rain forests.

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Pócs, T. (1982). Tropical Forest Bryophytes. In: Smith, A.J.E. (eds) Bryophyte Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5891-3_3

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