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Bryology (MOSS) Encore with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Ologies with Alie Ward

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How Do Mosse Photosynthesize?

Many mosses are thriving at something like 5% of the ambient available sunshine, right? Living on only 5% sunlight. I keep the dimmer switch. They don't care. They got this. And their balance of chlorophyll is adjusted to the spectrum of wavelengths of light in the dense shade. So they actually have a different pigment balance and modified photosynthetic pathway that allows them to be efficient at really low light levels.

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