10 November 2020From rooftop dweller to vigorous globetrotter: Researchers discover the secret of how moss spreadsPLANT BIOLOGY University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered how mosses became one of our planet’s most widely distributed plants — global wind systems transport them along Earth’s latitudes, to rooftops, sidewalks and lawns worldwide, and as far away as Antarctica. Global wind patterns and different moss families. There are roughly 600 moss species in Denmark, out of roughly 12,000 species found worldwide. In the study, researchers used moss samples sourced from dried plant collections called herbaria, from around the world. A better understanding of how airborne organisms spreadThe researchers' analyses demonstrate that the current distribution pattern of C. purpureus has occurred over the last ~11 million years.
