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Bryology (MOSS) Encore with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Mosses Are Exploiting These Little Micro Habitats

In the desert on a rock, the mosses are teensy. You know, they might only be a couple of millimeters tall because they have to stay within the boundary layer of that rock surface. Whereas if they're living under the shady moist canopy of a hemlock tree, they can be five inches tall. They're exploiting these little micro habitats rather than trying to dominate and control the habitat. That's ecologically, that's part of the puzzle then, how it all fits together. Absolutely.

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