FIGURE 2 in Mosses New for Mindanao Island, Republic of the Philippines

FIGURE 2. High quality cloud forest habitat draped in bryophyte cover. Collecting in high quality forests is primarily limited to existing roads and trails. Cross-country travel is difficult and slow due to dense forest vegetation and steep slopes. Bryophytes colonize a wide variety of habitats from soil, litter, rotten wood, and boulders on the forest floor to shrubs, tree trunks, to small branches and twigs up in the forest canopy. Inventory efforts to document the diversity of species present at any location need to sample all of the available microhabitat conditions. Photo by J. Shevock.