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  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Environmental Science

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  • Bryophytes are ecologically significant, regulating soil water, carbon, and nutrient cycles.
  • Functional traits are key to understanding plant responses to environmental changes but are understudied in bryophytes.
  • Limited knowledge of bryophyte functional traits hinders predictions of ecosystem responses to environmental variability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate functional traits in eight common forest floor bryophyte species.
  • To relate measured traits to small-scale environmental variability (water, light, nutrients).
  • To understand the influence of growth form and forest type on bryophyte trait composition.

Main Methods:

  • Measured 10 functional traits related to water balance and productivity.
  • Analyzed trait responses to within-forest environmental variability in two temperate coniferous forests.
  • Utilized multivariate analyses and mixed-effects models to assess trait-environment relationships.

Main Results:

  • Significant variation in trait composition among species, primarily driven by growth form (pleurocarpous vs. acrocarpous).
  • Bryophyte traits showed high sensitivity to small-scale environmental variability within forests.
  • Intraspecific trait variation was observed, indicating phenotypic plasticity in dominant species.

Conclusions:

  • Bryophyte trait variability is more strongly linked to growth form than forest type.
  • Bryophyte communities and individual species exhibit functional sensitivity to micro-environmental changes.
  • Future studies should incorporate bryophytes and growth form as critical functional groups for understanding ecosystem dynamics.