TY  - GEN
A1  - Frahm, Jan-Peter
T1  - Mosses and liverworts of the Chocó region, Colombia
T2  - 123
N2  - The Chocó region in Colombia is one of the wettest rainforests regions in the world. Isolated for about 3 million years, it is known for its high rate of endemism in flowering plants, ferns, birds and butterflies. Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) of this region, however, were very unsufficiently known. For this reason, a first survey of the bryoflora of the Chocó region was made in 1992 along a transect from sea level to 1800 m elevation. Apparently because of the high precipitation with up to 12 m annual rainfall, terrestrial species were found growing on bark or corticolous species on leaves. The cover of epiphytic bryophytes is higher than elsewhere, especially in the lowland forest which shows usually a low bryophyte cover. The percentage of mosses compared with that of liverworts is much lower than elsewhere. Mosses form only about 10% of the bryophyte cover in contrast to 40-50% in the according elevation in other rain forest regions.
T3  - Archive for Bryology - 123 
KW  - rainforests region
KW  - Bryophytes
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/35172
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-351727
PB  - Universität Bonn, Arbeitsgruppe Bryologie
CY  - Bonn
ER  -