- Home
- Angry by Choice
- Catalogue of Organisms
- Chinleana
- Doc Madhattan
- Games with Words
- Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
- History of Geology
- Moss Plants and More
- Pleiotropy
- Plektix
- RRResearch
- Skeptic Wonder
- The Culture of Chemistry
- The Curious Wavefunction
- The Phytophactor
- The View from a Microbiologist
- Variety of Life
Field of Science
-
-
-
-
Hivestorm1 year ago in Pleiotropy
-
The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site1 year ago in Catalogue of Organisms
-
The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site1 year ago in Variety of Life
-
-
Does mathematics carry human biases?3 years ago in PLEKTIX
-
-
-
Daily routine3 years ago in Angry by Choice
-
-
A New Placodont from the Late Triassic of China4 years ago in Chinleana
-
Posted: July 22, 2018 at 03:03PM5 years ago in Field Notes
-
Bryophyte Herbarium Survey6 years ago in Moss Plants and More
-
Harnessing innate immunity to cure HIV7 years ago in Rule of 6ix
-
WE MOVED!7 years ago in Games with Words
-
-
-
-
post doc job opportunity on ribosome biochemistry!8 years ago in Protein Evolution and Other Musings
-
Growing the kidney: re-blogged from Science Bitez8 years ago in The View from a Microbiologist
-
Blogging Microbes- Communicating Microbiology to Netizens9 years ago in Memoirs of a Defective Brain
-
-
-
The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl11 years ago in Sex, Genes & Evolution
-
-
Lab Rat Moving House12 years ago in Life of a Lab Rat
-
Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs12 years ago in Disease Prone
-
-
Slideshow of NASA's Stardust-NExT Mission Comet Tempel 1 Flyby12 years ago in The Large Picture Blog
-
in The Biology Files
A plant pundit comments on plants, the foibles and fun of academic life, and other things of interest.
Bryophyte Week - Haploid Holiday
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Living in an ideal temperate rainforest eco-community, I can't help be impressed with all the bryophytes, mosses, and other superior life forms that surround me. A coulee of weeks ago I climbed a ladder and cleaned out the mosses that had tumbled off my roof tiles into the gutters, and the health and vigor of these "island communities" that survive on essentially nothing but rain amazes me.
I would point out that I actually found and collected Antheroceros when a student at UNH, which may have been my botanical highlight as an undergraduate. I have visited the site repeatedly since, and never seen the bugger again. Bryophyte-ology is a cruel mistress, I can tell you!
As Dr Chips (wood not cow) points out bryophytes seem to be able to live on just about nothing, and while we think them fragile, they're really, really tough, and the conditions for the pioneers of early life on land and a tile roof are probably not all that different.
And you set the bar high for botanically oriented folk out there as someone who's found hornworts in the field!
Post a Comment