The low water potentials measured in D. muscorum are likely to prevent germination of most seeds and moss spores, and reduce the growth of fungal hyphae (Money 1997; Manandhar 1998; Wiklund and Rydin 2004). This would limit the establishment of plants and fungi on the D. muscorum surface, ...
Groups marked by the same letter in (a) do not differ statistically significantly at p = 0.05, according to Tukey’s posteriori test. Black bars in (b) are chemical traits (Ct). Light green bars in (b) are morphological and anatomical traits: ascospore septation (Ss), ascomata texture ...