On the diversity and richness of understory bryophytes at Nectandra Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica

Summary, in English

Background A survey of the understory bryophytes in the Nectandra Cloud Forest Preserve yielded 1083 specimens distributed among 55 families, represented by 74 genera of mosses, 75 genera of liverworts and 3 of hornworts. We studied and analyzed the bryophytic distribution on six types of substrates: 1) corticolous, 2) epiphyllous, 3) saxicolous, 4) terricolous, 5) aquatic and 6) lignicolous. The richness and composition of bryophyte genera are compared to those of other previous bryophyte surveys from 4 other sites with different oceanic exposures, climatic and geographic conditions in Costa Rica. New information This is a report of the first extensive general survey of bryophytes at the Nectandra Reserve, a premontane cloud forest located on the Atlantic slope of Costa Rica, an area much less studied compared to the Monteverde cloud forest on the Pacific slope.

• Författare: Daniel H. Norris; Ekaphan Kraichak; Allen C. Risk; Diane Lucas; Dorothy J. Allard; Frida Rosengren; Theresa A. Clark; Nicole Fenton; Michael Tessler; Nonkululo Phephu; Evelyne T. Lennette
• Avdelning/ar: Biologibiblioteket
• Publiceringsår: 2017
• Språk: Engelska
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Biodiversity Data Journal
• Volym: 5
• Issue: 1
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.5.e11778
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Pensoft Publishers
• Ämne: Botany
• Nyckelord: Bryophyte surveys; Costa Rica; Liverworts; Mosses; Nectandra Cloud Forest Reserve; Premontane cloud forest; Tropical bryophytes
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1314-2836