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. 2017 Mar 24:(5):e11778.
doi: 10.3897/BDJ.5.e11778. eCollection 2017.

On the diversity and richness of understory bryophytes at Nectandra Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica

Daniel H Norris  1 , Ekaphan Kraichak  2 , Allen C Risk  3 , Diane Lucas  4 , Dorothy J Allard  5 , Frida Rosengren  6 , Theresa A Clark  7 , Nicole Fenton  8 , Michael Tessler  9 , Nonkululo Phephu  10 , Evelyne T Lennette  11
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On the diversity and richness of understory bryophytes at Nectandra Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica

Daniel H Norris et al. Biodivers Data J. .

Abstract

Background: A survey of the understory bryophytes in the Nectandra Cloud Forest Preserve yielded 1083 specimens distributed among 55 families, represented by 74 genera of mosses, 75 genera of liverworts and 3 of hornworts. We studied and analyzed the bryophytic distribution on six types of substrates: 1) corticolous, 2) epiphyllous, 3) saxicolous, 4) terricolous, 5) aquatic and 6) lignicolous. The richness and composition of bryophyte genera are compared to those of other previous bryophyte surveys from 4 other sites with different oceanic exposures, climatic and geographic conditions in Costa Rica.

New information: This is a report of the first extensive general survey of bryophytes at the Nectandra Reserve, a premontane cloud forest located on the Atlantic slope of Costa Rica, an area much less studied compared to the Monteverde cloud forest on the Pacific slope.

Keywords: Costa Rica; Nectandra Cloud Forest Reserve; Tropical bryophytes; bryophyte surveys; liverworts; mosses; premontane cloud forest.

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Published general bryophyte surveys in Costa Rica
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Individual sample-based species accumulation curve from the bryophyte specimens from Nectandra, using the rarefraction method. The light blue band represents 95% confidence interval.
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Distribution of bryophytes on six substrates
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