Exploring Bryophyte Flora: New Records, Rare Species, and Conservation Challenges
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Systematics, Taxonomy, Nomenclature and Classification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: botany; species diversity; bryophytes; plant ecology; plant conservation; plant systematics; plant taxonomy; phytosociology; biomonitoring
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Dear Colleagues,
Bryophytes are non-vascular, mostly terrestrial plants, and include hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. They are regarded as progenitors of more advanced vascular plants and represent the second largest group of land plants after flowering plants. They significantly contribute to plant diversity in most types of habitats worldwide.
Bryophytes can live in different and harsh environments and often show wide distributions. However, the ranges of many species are changing, where some are expanding and others are disappearing. In many cases, their suitable microhabitats deteriorate drastically due to habitat destruction or fragmentation, climate change, and over-exploitation of water resources. For these reasons, many species can be subjected to risk of extinction and considered threatened at global and/or regional scales.
This Special Issue is open to articles on bryophyte diversity and distribution, as well as on the conservation, recognition, and listing of rare and decreasing species, recording their distribution, biology, and specific threats that lead to biodiversity loss.
Dr. Marta Puglisi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bryophytes
- taxonomy
- new records
- biogeography
- species distribution models
- red list
- invasion processes
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