TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kuc, Marian
T1  - Adaptations of lowland jungle mosses to anthropogenic environments in Guyana
T2  - Tropical bryology
N2  - Sixteen lowland jungle mosses growing in anthropogenic habitats at Santa and The Bell - Ituni localities on the Demerara River in Guyana were examined in detail with the aim of detecting any features which would indicate their adaptations to new habitats. Amounts of chlorophyll in leaf cells, protective coloration, alterations in leaf morphology, characteristics of old stems, rhizoid tomentum and fertility are considered as the most pronounced adaptive features of these species to new localities. The ecology, general appearance and morpho-anatomical changes of specimens from anthropogenic habitats were observed and compared with their equivalents from habitats occurring in the closest natural environments. No one species grows or has local centers of occurrence only in anthropogenic habitats. Generally, invasion of lowland jungle mosses into anthropogenic environments is considered as difficult, slow and limited.
Y1  - 2000
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/30424
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-304243
SN  - 0935-5626
N1  - The layout of the electronic version of this contribution differs from the layout of the original version published in the printed volume.
IS  - 18
SP  - 49
EP  - 53
PB  - D. Quandt, Univ. Bonn, Nees Inst. für Biodiversität d. Pflanzen
CY  - Bonn
ER  -