Moss may appear fairly plain, but it has a few features that call for more attention. It is an old and venerable life form ...

and that they "fix" twice as much nitrogen as those associated with mosses on the forest floor. Moss is the crucial element. The amount of nitrogen coming from the canopy depends on trees having ...

Throughout the forests and wetlands of the Poconos, these attractive plants often form extensive colonies across the forest floor and resemble ... Bristly, or stiff club moss (L.

“There are ferns and twigs, like a tapestry of the forest floor.” After all, moss’s beauty lies partly in its wildness, in its ability to conjure a bygone world — or perhaps a future one ...

Mosses are the most prevalent kind. "They don't have roots that go into trunks or to the forest floor, but rather it is their leaves that are adapted to intercept the dissolved nutrients that come ...

The forest floor is carpeted with humus ... At a short distance from here is a cluster of smaller moss-covered stones, which served as a waiting area for young adults as the ritual was conducted.

Anna Halafoff receives funding from the Australian Research Council, for the project Australian Spirituality: Wellness, Wellbeing and Risk. Hannah Gould does not work for, consult, own shares in ...