Author : IUCN/SSC Bryophyte Specialist Group
Release : 2000-01-01
Genre : Nature
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Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts write by IUCN/SSC Bryophyte Specialist Group. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bryophytes are of great importance in their ecosystems and for human well-being. They stabilize soil crust through colonization of bare grounds and rocks; they are essential in nutrient recycling, biomass production, and carbon fixing; they control water through an effective retention mechanism; and they have economic value as peat for fuel, horticulture, oil absorption, and as sources of a wide variety of chemical compounds. Bryophytes have long been used for medicinal purposes and provide a food source for reindeer, geese, ducks, sheep, musk-ox, lemmings, and other rodents. Threats include deforestation, cultivation of forests, reclamation of land, urbanization, roads, dam-building, mining, drainage of wetlands and over-grazing. This plan reviews the situation worldwide and proposes a variety of initiatives. It is aimed at those who work with and care about nature conservation, including governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as politicians and the general interested public.