Bryophyte Systematics, Phytodiversity, Phytosociology and Ecology

Spans a broad range of topics. In the Systematic part (8 contributions), a new genus, Kuerschneria, and four new species are described as new to science. Two papers include molecular analyses (genera Oxystegus and Palustriella), one a morphometric analysis of the genus Gymnostomiella, and five papers deal with classical morpho-anatomical systematic treatments (moss genus Forsstroemia and liverwort genera, Ceratolejeunea and Lejeunea).

The Phytodiversity part (9 contributions) presents an impressive example for the recent ongoing worldwide survey on the diversity of bryophytes, ranging from Europe to South-West Asia, Macaronesia (Selvagens Islands), the Himalayan region, southern South America and to Ile Amsterdam in the South Indian Ocean. These are contributions to different countries and regions (Greece, Montenegro, Turkey, Bhutan, Chile, Sino-Himalayan region), and to the oceanic islands Selvagens and Ile Amsterdam.

The Phytosociology and Ecology part (5 papers) gives an impression of the phytosociological and ecological work in the Tropics (2 contributions, neotropical trunk-epiphytes), two concern vegetation units in Europe and one the ecology of genus Porella in Madeira. The volume is completed with a contribution on asexual reproduction (propagula types) in pleurocarpous mosses.

Frey, W.: A tribute to Harald Kürschner (With 10 figures) 9

Systematics

Ochyra, R. & H. Bednarek-Ochyra: Kuerschneria, a new pleurocarpous moss genus from Brazil (With 1 figure) 25

Köckinger, H., O. Werner & R. M. Ros: A new taxonomic approach to the genus Oxystegus (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta) in Europe based on molecular data (With 2 figures and 1 appendix) 31

Hedenäs, L.: ITS distinguishes Palustriella falcata from P. commutata and P. decipiens, but not from P. pluristratosa (Amblystegiaceae, Bryophyta) (With 3 figures and 2 tables) 51

Hedenäs, L. & H. Zare: The Euxinian-Hyrcanian endemic species Forsstroemia remotifolia (Lindb. ex Broth.) Hedenäs & Zare, comb. nov. (Neckeraceae, Bryophyta) (With 1 figure and 1 table) 61

González-Mancebo, J. M., J. Patiño, A. Rodríguez-Romero, O. Werner & R. M. Ros: Gymnostomiella (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta) revisited: new insights revealed by a morphometric analysis (With 4 figures, 3 tables and 1 appendix) 69

Fischer, E. & A. Vanderpoorten: New records for the liverwort flora of Gabon, with a description of Ceratolejeunea kuerschneri, sp. nov. (Lejeuneaceae, Jungermanniopsida) (With 6 figures) 85

Pócs, T.: On some new or less known Lejeunea (Lejeuneaceae, Jungermanniopsida) species in tropical Africa. East African Bryophytes, XXVII (With 9 plates) 99

Reiner-Drehwald, M. E.: On Lejeunea subgenus Nanolejeunea (Lejeuneaceae, Jungermanniopsida) (With 4 figures) 117

Phytodiversity

Blockeel, T. L.: The bryophytes of Greece: new records and observations, 2 (With 2 figures) 129

Papp, B. & P. Erzberger: Contributions to the bryophyte flora of Durmitor National Park, Montenegro (With 1 figure) 147

Lara, F., V. Mazimpaka, R. Medina, R. Caparrós & R. Garilleti: Northeastern Turkey, an unnoticed but very important area for the Orthotrichaceae (Bryophyta) (With 17 figures and 1 appendix) 165

Erdağ, A. & M. Kirmaci: Zygodon forsteri (Orthotrichaceae, Bryophyta), a new record to the bryophyte flora of Turkey and SW Asia (With 2 figures) 181

Sim-Sim, M., S. Fontinha, L. Luís, C. Lobo & M. Stech: The Selvagens Islands bryoflora and its relation with islands of the Madeira and Canary Islands Archipelagos (With 4 figures and 2 tables) 187

Ván(a, J. & D. G. Long: Gymnomitriaceae (Jungermanniopsida) of the Sino-Himalayan region 201

Sollman, P.: Several pottiaceous mosses reported new for Bhutan 207

Buck, W. R. & B. Goffinet: Preliminary key to the mosses of Isla Navarino, Chile (Prov. Antártica Chilena) (With 6 figures) 215

Váňa, J., M. Lebouvier, R. Ochyra, H. Bednarek-Ochyra & B. Cykowska: Two noteworthy records of hepatics from Île Amsterdam in the South Indian Ocean (With 4 figures) 231

Phytosociology

Parolly, G. & E. Zippel: Phytogeographical composition of neotropical trunk-epiphytic bryophyte communities. Ecosociological studies in Ecuadorian bryophyte communities, VII. (With 3 figures, 1 table and 1 appendix) 243

Puglisi, M.: Contribution to the bryophyte vegetation of the Pelagian Archipelago: the Island of Linosa (Sicily Channel, Italy) (With 1 figure, 20 tables, and 2 appendices) 259

Hugonnot, V.: The Fissidento adianthoidis-Dichelymetum capillacei ass. nov. in the Leyre valley (Gironde, south-western France) (With 3 figures, 1 table and 1 appendix) 285

Ecology

Fontinha, S., M. Sim-Sim & C. Sérgio: The genus Porella (Porellaceae, Marchantiophyta) in Madeira Archipelago: ecological and morphological approaches (With 4 figures, 3 tables and 1 appendix) 297

Gradstein, S. R. & S. G. Sporn: Land-use change and epiphytic bryophyte diversity in the Tropics (With 4 figures and 4 photographs) 311

Fritz, S., K. Lieske & W. Frey: Vegetative (asexual) reproduction by propagules in six dioicous pleurocarpous mosses. A morphological study (With 3 figures and 3 tables) 325