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The correlation pattern between vascular plants and bryophytes was studied, comparing variance proportions accounted for by the main PCA axes of sets containing only vascular plants and sets containing random selection of both bryophytes and vascular plants with the same number of species. In material rich in bryophytes, inclusion of bryophytes almost invariably lowered the overall correlation expressed by the variance proportion of the main PCA axes. This indicates that distribution of bryophytes is largely determined by other factors than that of vascular plants. It is suggested that this may be due to the opportunistic strategy of grassland bryophytes which respond to factors of much shorter duration and greater fluctuations than vascular plants.
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Herben, T. Bryophytes in grassland vegetation sample plots: What is their correlation with vascular plants?. Folia geobot. phytotax. 22, 35–41 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02853215
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