Bryologie is the branch of botany concerned with the scientific study of mosses. Pinguicula grandiflora Botany is the scientific study of plantlife. ... Subclasses Sphagnidae Andreaeidae Tetraphidae Polytrichidae Archidiidae Buxbaumiidae Bryidae Mosses are small, soft plants that are typically 1-10 cm tall, occasionally more. ...

Mosses were first studied in detail in the 18th century. The German botanist Johann Jacob Dillenius (1687-1747) was a professor at Oxford and in 1717 produced the work "Reproduction of the ferns and mosses." The beginning of bryology really belongs to the work of Johannes Hedwig, who clarified the reproductive system of mosses (1792, Fundamentum historiae naturalist muscorum) and arranged a taxonomy. Johann Jakob Dillen (Dillenius) (1687-April 2, 1747) was a German botanist. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Classes Psilotopsida Equisetopsida Marattiopsida Polypodiopsida A fern is any one of a group of about 20,000 species of plants classified in the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta. ... Subclasses Sphagnidae Andreaeidae Tetraphidae Polytrichidae Archidiidae Buxbaumiidae Bryidae Mosses are small, soft plants that are typically 1-10 cm tall, occasionally more. ... Look up taxonomy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Areas of research include moss taxonomy, moss as bioindicators, DNA sequencing, and the interdependency of mosses and other plant and animal species. Among other things, scientists have learned that certain species of mosses are carnivorous. Look up taxonomy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Any biological species or group of species whose function, population, or status can be used to determine ecosystem level or environmental integrity. ... DNA sequencing is the process of determining the nucleotide order of a given DNA fragment, called the DNA sequence. ... Nepenthes mirabilis in flower, growing on a road cut in Palau A carnivorous plant (sometimes called an insectivorous plant) is a plant that derives some or most of its nutrients (but not energy) from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, especially insects and other arthropods. ...

Centers of research in bryology include University of Bonn, Germany. The main building, viewed from the Hofgarten. ...

Literature

• Meylania, Zeitschrift für Bryologie und Lichenologie
• Limprichtia, Zeitschrift der Bryologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutschlands

External links

• (German) Arbeitsgruppe Bryologie at the University of Bonn
• (German) A Short History of Bryology

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.