Examples of liverwort

• Many of the smaller liverworts grew over or through the sward of larger bryophytes rather than adhering to the bark.

• However, liverwort diversity was scarcely lower in the fallows, except in the very young (4 y old) ones.

• The meandering facies generally have greater abundance of liverworts and ferns (that is, moisture loving forms).

• Our results are, however, consistent with the notion that mosses and liverworts strongly facilitate the establishment of seedlings of vascular epiphytes.

• Many encyclopedic interests could be carried on in this way: growing ferns, mosses, or liverworts, for example.

• Non-vascular species were recorded within 95 sample plots and totalled 2 2 mosses, 66 liverworts and 4 6 macrolichens.

• The bryophyte flora is richer, comprising 134 moss or liverwort species.

• The associated floristic differences include an increase in cover of mosses and crustose lichens in the upper ridge and a decrease in liverwort cover.

• The remaining bark was mostly covered with crustose lichens, but we also observed smaller mosses and liverworts (< 2 mm height) or algae.

• The pendants - pendulous forms - were conspicuous but represented in our samples by only four moss and one liverwort species.

• This paper focuses on bryophytes (mosses, liverworts) in tropical rain forests and deals with the question of how deforestation and forest regeneration affect the diversity of these organisms.

• In the non-vascular subplot, collective cover values f or mosses, liverworts, macrolichens and crustose lichens were recorded in the field, and mean thickness of the non-vascular layer.

• Biota includes algal crusts and felts (11 species), bryophytes (one species of moss and one of liverwort), a protozoan, and a range of microflora.

• Lejeuneaceae (liverworts; 32 species) were the largest family, representing 40% of all the bryophyte species recorded.

• There are a number of other rare plants, including the rare downy willow, as well as mosses and liverworts.