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Sphagnum divinum Flatberg & Hassel. (A) Holotype specimen photo (TRH B-39078), together with the vascular species Andromeda polifolia L., Oxycoccus quadripetalus Gilib., and Sphagnum angustifolium. (B) Topotype specimen photo (TRH B-39080), with mainly green capitula. (C) Typical shoot, specimen from the type locality seen from side. All illustrations are of specimens from the type locality Norway, Sør-Trøndelag county, Klaebu, Oddmyra. Photos: Kjell I. Flatberg.
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Sphagnum magellanicum has been viewed as being a predominantly circumpolar species in the northern hemisphere, but it occurs in the southern hemisphere and was originally described from the southern parts of Chile. It is an ecologically important species in mire ecosystems and has been extensively used as a model to study processes of growth, carbo...
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... (Figure 8) somewhat domed to nearly flat, somewhat to indistinctly 5-radiate from above, varyingly purple-red to wine-red, mottled green and reddish, to sometimes wholly green in shaded habitats, about (15-)20-25(-30) mm in diameter. Capitulum branches (Figure 8) straight to slightly laterally recurved to somewhat incurved, outer branches in side-view somewhat decurved, patent to somewhat erecto-patent in hummock habitats, cylindrical and narrowly tapering with tightly imbricate to somewhat spreading leaves. ...
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... (Figure 8) somewhat domed to nearly flat, somewhat to indistinctly 5-radiate from above, varyingly purple-red to wine-red, mottled green and reddish, to sometimes wholly green in shaded habitats, about (15-)20-25(-30) mm in diameter. Capitulum branches (Figure 8) straight to slightly laterally recurved to somewhat incurved, outer branches in side-view somewhat decurved, patent to somewhat erecto-patent in hummock habitats, cylindrical and narrowly tapering with tightly imbricate to somewhat spreading leaves. Terminal bud visible, inconspicuous, surrounded by similar-looking, erect, straight, and somewhat longer innermost branches. ...
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... al. (2001),Thormann et al. (2001),Asada and Warner (2005), Trinder et al. (2008), Breeuwer et al. (2008), Straková et al. (2010), Hagemann and Moroni 140 (2015), Bengtsson et al. (2017),Golovatskaya and Nikonova (2017), andMäkilä et al. (2018). Samples originally classified as Sphagnum magellanicum are here classified as Sphagnum magellanicum aggr.(Hassel et al., 2018). ...
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We present a meta-analysis of 15 Sphagnum litterbag studies to estimate initial leaching losses (l0), to test whether initial leaching losses can bias Sphagnum decomposition rate estimates (k0), and to analyze how initial leaching losses increase errors in k0 estimates.
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... ex Russow (Russow 1865: 21) had the most significant water absorption, about 44 times the dry weight. Sphagnum divinum Flatberg & K.Hassel (Hassel et al. 2018: 206) (43 times) and Sphagnum compactum DC in Lamarck & de Candolle (1805: 443) (42 times) also had excellent water absorption, and none had a significant difference in water absorption compared with S. imbricatum. The Sphagnum species with the lowest water absorption was Sphagnum flexuosum Dozy & Molkenboer (1851: 76), only about 19 times the dry weight. ...
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The article provides a summary of current knowledge related to the distribution, anatomical-morphological, and ecological characteristics of sphagnum mosses on the mountain massif of Gorgany. The analysis is based on the original field research, and also literature and herbarium data. It has been established that genus Sphagnum L. within the Ukrainian Carpathians is represented by 30 species, with 23 species occurring in the Gorgany mountain massif. Information about the species diversity of this moss group is mentioned in the works of scientists such as Zerov D. K., Partika L. Ya. (1975), Nyporko S. O. (2006); Savitska A. G. (2012), Felbaba-Klushyna L. M. (2015), Rabyk I. V., Danilyk I. M. (2022), Prytula S. V., Mamchur Z. I., Drach Yu. A. (2020; 2022), in the herbarium collections of the Department of Ecology at Ivan Franko National University, the State Museum of Natural History of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (LWS), the M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany (KW), as well as electronic databases like the National Biodiversity Information Network and the Center for Biodiversity Data of Ukraine. According to the research, an annotated list of 23 species of sphagnum mosses in the Gorgany territory was identified and compiled. The distribution of these species in various sections of the massif was analyzed, including Krayovi Nyzhkohirni, Zovnishni (Skybovi), and Pryvododilni (Vnutrishni) Gorgany. The highest number of species was recorded in the Pryvododilni Gorgany area. The Krayovi Nyzhkohirni Gorgany is still not researched, and also there is no any data about the distribution of sphagnum mosses. A taxonomic analysis was conducted, including classification into 5 subgenera, of which four were identified within the study area. The subgenera Acutifolia (Russow) A.J.Shaw (10) and Cuspidata Lindb (8) are represented by the highest number of species. No species from the Rigida (Lindb.) A.Eddy subgenus were found.
... H. Klinggr.] as models to assess the importance of abiotic and biotic variables to carbon sequestration in northern peatlands by analysing variation in the growth of these two species across 99 Holarctic peatlands. However, Hassel et al. (2018) provided evidence that plants previously referred to as S. magellanicum in the Northern Hemisphere are in fact two different species (S. divinum Flatberg & K.Hassel and S. medium Limpr.) and that they differ in morphology and ecology. Bengtsson et al. (2020) recognized this taxonomic change and acknowledged that their results may have been affected by the ecological differences between these taxa. ...
The use of species as a concept is an important metric for assessing biological diversity and ecosystem function. However, delimiting species based on morphological characters can be difficult, especially in aquatic plants that exhibit high levels of variation and overlap. The Sphagnum cuspidatum complex, which includes plants that dominate peatland hollows, provides an example of challenges in species delimitation. Microscopic characters that have been used to define taxa and the possibility that these characters may simply be phenoplastic responses to variation in water availability make species delimitation in this group especially difficult. In particular, the use of leaf shape and serration, which have been used to separate species in the complex, have resulted in divergent taxonomic treatments. Using a combination of high-resolution population genomic data (RADseq) and a robust morphological assessment of plants representing the focal species, we provide evidence to evaluate putative species in this complex. Our data support the recognition of S. cuspidatum, S. fitzgeraldii, S. mississippiense, and S. trinitense as genetically distinct species that can be separated morphologically. These results indicate that S. viride does not differ genetically from S. cuspidatum. Our results are broadly relevant to other aquatic groups where leaf shape and marginal teeth are used to distinguish species.
... Historically, S. magellanicum has been a valuable model for peatland ecologists due to its global distribution and red-violet pigmentation that makes it easily discernible from other species in subgenus Sphagnum (Shaw et al., 2003a). More recently, genetic studies have demonstrated that this lineage is a complex of morphologically cryptic species: S. magellanicum that is restricted to South America, S. divinum and S. medium that are present in Europe and North America, and S. diabolicum and S. magniae that are known from eastern North America (Kyrkjeeide et al., 2016a;Yousefi et al., 2017;Hassel et al., 2018;Shaw et al., 2022). Phylogenomic analysis has demonstrated that S. diabolicum and S. magniae are sister species that have not reached reciprocal monophylly across all chromosomes suggesting that these clades are in the early stages of speciation (Shaw et al., 2022(Shaw et al., , 2023. ...
Background and Aims
New plant species can evolve through the reinforcement of reproductive isolation via local adaptation along habitat gradients. Peat mosses (Sphagnaceae) are an emerging model system for the study of evolutionary genomics and have well-documented niche differentiation among species. Recent molecular studies have demonstrated that the globally distributed species Sphagnum magellanicum is a complex of morphologically cryptic lineages that are phylogenetically and ecologically distinct. Here, we describe the architecture of genomic differentiation between two sister species in this complex known from eastern North America: the northern S. diabolicum and the largely southern S. magniae.
Methods
We sampled plant populations from across a latitudinal gradient in eastern North America and performed whole genome and restriction-site associated DNA sequencing. These sequencing data were then analyzed computationally.
Key Results
Using sliding-window population genetic analyses we find that differentiation is concentrated within ‘islands’ of the genome spanning up to 400 kb that are characterized by elevated genetic divergence, suppressed recombination, reduced nucleotide diversity and increased rates of non-synonymous substitution. Sequence variants that are significantly associated with genetic structure and bioclimatic variables occur within genes that have functional enrichment for biological processes including abiotic stress response, photoperiodism and hormone-mediated signalling. Demographic modelling demonstrates that these two species diverged no more than 225 000 generations ago with secondary contact occurring where their ranges overlap.
Conclusions
We suggest that this heterogeneity of genomic differentiation is a result of linked selection and reflects the role of local adaptation to contrasting climatic zones in driving speciation. This research provides insight into the process of speciation in a group of ecologically important plants and strengthens our predictive understanding of how plant populations will respond as Earth’s climate rapidly changes.
... The collected water holding capacity data with standard deviation (std. dev.) (G-Gyda, Taz-Taz tundra, N-Noyabrsk, Kha-Khanymey).Notes: * the species were recently revised and divided into three species by Hassel et al.[26]; our samples most likely are cf. Sphagnum divinum Flatberg and K. Hassel. ...
Functional traits are a set of characteristics that are expressed in the phenotype of an individual organism as a response to the environment and their impact on the ecosystem’s properties. They are positioned at the crossroads between the response and influence of the organisms, creating a certain interest in functional ecological and evolutionary fields. Due to this unique position, they are divided into two categories: effect functional traits and response functional traits. Effect traits describe the influence of the species on the environment regardless of whether such traits are an adaptive advantage to the individual or not. In Bryophyta, one of the most important effect traits is water holding capacity (WHC), which is their means of regulating ecosystem hydrology. On a global scale, mosses’ WHC is manifested in the slowdown of the large water cycle, in the storage of huge volumes of fresh water by peatlands and in the enormous paludification of Western Siberia. The main goal of our research was to obtain the water holding capacity measurements of tundra and taiga moss species to establish the base and foundation for environmental monitoring in the north of Siberia—the region with the most rapidly changing climate. Both the capacity to hold water within the moss tissues (WHC) and the capacity to hold water externally between the morphological structures (leaves, branches, rhizoids, etc.) (WHCe) were measured. In total, 95 samples of 9 Sphagnum and 5 true mosses species were involved to the research; some species were collected at two or three sampling sites within two natural zones/subzones that gave us the opportunity to compare the WHC along the meridional transection. In average, the northern taiga samples showed slightly higher WHC than tundra samples, probably due to the environmental specifics of the habitat—the taiga habitats were more moist, while the tundra was drier. Overall, in the majority of species, the standard deviation calculation revealed that the variability of WHCe is significantly higher than that of WHC. Such high variability in WHCe may be explained in regard to the morphological features of each individual considerably shifting between the samples of the same species while the anatomical features retain more stable results.
... Pellio-Conocephaletum Maas 1959and Pellio endiviifiliae-Cratoneuretum commutati Rivola 1982(Montio-Cardaminetea Braun-Blanquet et Tüxen 1943, Didymodon recurvirostris-Tortella flavovirens-ass. -today Tortello-Bryoerythrophylletum Boerboom 1960(Koelerio-Corynephoretea Klika in Klika et Novák 1941, and Sphagnetalia medii Kästner et Flössner 1933(preferred over Sphagnetalia magellanici Kästner et Flössner 1933 as Sphagnum magellanicum is not present in Europe; Hassel et al. 2018) (Oxycocco-Sphagnetea Braun-Blanquet et Tüxen ex Westhoff et al. 1946) (Maas 1959, Boerboom 1960, Schaminée et al. 1995b, 1996. Shortly before 2000, Siebel and Van Dort published a list of bryophyte syntaxa which were known from the Netherlands (Van Dort and Siebel 1995, Siebel andVan Dort 1999). ...
We present a first complete overview of the bryophyte-lichen syntaxa in the Netherlands, including diagnostic species and Red List status of vegetations representing each (sub)association. The classification is based on more than 5000 Dutch vegetation relevés, the majority recorded after the year 2000. Whenever appropriate, we integrated bryophyte and lichen syntaxonomy. The Dutch list of bryolichenosociological units consists of 168 syntaxa: 16 classes, 27 orders, 37 alliances, 82 associations and 6 subassociations. We present synoptic tables of 13 newly described syntaxa: two alliances, nine associations and two subassociations. Finally, we present ranges of the abiotic habitat variables moisture, light availabilty, nutrient richness and acidity on class level, based on estimated values of diagnostic species of individual associations in each class.
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