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Bryology (MOSS) Encore with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Ologies with Alie Ward

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The Boundary Layer Is Where Mosses Live

Mosses can only photosynthesize when they're both wet and illuminated. airflow can be a great detriment to the growth of mosses. A boundary layer is this area of extremely still air right at the surface of any surface, a log, a rock, a tree, your house. This region of still air is where mosses live. And that way they can stay moist. They don't have so much evaporation because of wind flow.

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