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There is currently a growing interest in mosses inspired by: 1)
Their use as atmospheric air quality biomonitors, 2) their
importance as ecological status markers of global changes in
hostile environments, and 3) their use in various bioengineering
and biotechnological applications. Moreover, additional attention
to mosses stems from their importance as the dominant terrestrial
plants in high latitudes -- most notably arctic and subarctic
regions -- that are subjected to climate warming. This book aims to
characterize poorly studied aspects of the chemical composition of
inventoried mosses across not only the subarctic, but also the
Antarctic regions. This book focuses strongly on mosses inhabiting
western and northern Siberia and European Russia, with nine total
chapters devoted to these regions. Out of more than 25,000 studies
dealing with mosses (from 1950 to 2018), only 300 were devoted to
mosses from Siberia (WoS, all databases). This book also focuses on
the use of mosses as bioindicators; physio-chemical principles and
case studies of applications for tracing industrial pollution are
discussed. Additionally, the process of moss biomineralization in a
petrifying spring is also considered. Taken together, the twelve
chapters presented provide a comprehensive overview of mosses in
ecology, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, and mineralogy.
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