Function For Life of Plants Mosses

LIFE FOR ANIMALS
As habitat for invertebrate animals
The relationship between the invertebrate bryophyta divided into two groups:

    * Animals who are bryophylous, ie animals that during his life lived on moss.
    * Animals who are bryoxenous, ie animals that only a portion of their life cycle living on mosses.
Moss fauna include protozoan, rotifer, nematode, and tardigrada. Fauna - fauna moss should also be classified into four categories, namely: 

   One. Bryobion, animals which are specifically present in association with the bryophyte.
   2. Bryopyle, animals usually found but can live anywhere.
   3. Bryoxene, animals that regularly spend part of their life cycle on bryophyte.
   4. Occasional, animals are sometimes found in the bryophyte, but life does not depend on the moss. 
Mosses can be used as habitat for animals, because:

    * As an insulator against heat, cold and wind.
    * As a bearing for the fight against climate change.
    * As a noise filter of 30-50 kHz frequency range.
    * As a refuge (shelter), because it does not attract attention and subordinate position in most ecosystems.
    * Having the shape, texture, and thickness of leaves which vary so bryofauna diverse as well.
    * Can be used as place of laying (oviposition) and pupation (pupae).
    * Can be as camouflage and mimicry place.
As a source of invertebrate food
Some algae-eating organism:

   One. Rotifer, eating particles derived from bryophyte
   2. Nematode
   3. Mollusk, several kinds of snails (Gastropoda) eating lichen
   4. Tardigrada
   5. Arthropods, mainly insects and arachnida class
   6. Ants eat the spores in a capsule or the entire capsule
   7. Grasshoppers that live on rocks, tropical saxalitis Trumero-consuming 27.25 mg / day of moss Orimmia laevigata
   8. Ectomnorrhinus stimulus moss beetles consume brachytecium rutabulum 1.67 mg / day / beetles (3-13% of total production bryophyta)
   9. Scorpions, which eat young moss
As a "Stepping stone" invertebrate
Examples: aquatic arthropods to terrestrial habitats
As a source of food and nest vertebrates
Example: Polar and deer aves Plant life
Bryovegetasi in montane forests played a much more important role in water balance and the accumulation of humus.
Research results revealed that the seeds - seeds of plants that fell on the moss vegetation, 90% will germinate.
Moss has the ability like a sponge, storing rainfall and support (up to 25x dry weight), besides it also has the ability to "comb" atmospheric humidity and only release water gradually. From the ability of moss, it is evident that the presence of algae in the water balance of natural causes, can be sustained and well maintained land kesubutan. With such a huge role for higher plants.
The results Asakawa (1998) showed that moss plants possessed antimicrobial and antifungal compound, and according Marliana (2003) have airase and drainage, so the plants are epiphytic lichen and spermatophyte Pteridophyta growth media that are epiphytic. For the life of human life
As an indicator of mineral deposits
Moss is more reliable as an indicator of the mineral rather than direct analysis, because the filtering system is still not as perfect as higher plants.
An example is related to copper moss. This moss is found on rocks or soil that contains copper, but also there is the mineral zinc, iron, and lead in the form of sulfide as the sulfur springs (hence Schatz (1995) suggested that the term lichen sulfur may be more appropriate). Some examples of copper moss: Cephalozoella massalongoi, Gymnocolea acutiloba, Milichloferia elongata, M millichhoferi, and Scopeloptida ligulata.
As an indicator of ecological
Moss has a very important value as an indicator of a particular habitat conditions due to its ecological range is very limited and rather narrow.
Physele Post reported ecological value Pterogonionum subselide & Pepopatum moss as an indicator of a particular climate in Czechoslovakia. There is also a moss that likes to pH, lime content, and a certain amount of sand or dust in the field.
As an indicator of air and water pollution
Use of the aquatic bryophyte as an indicator of the level of water pollution can be quite expected role.
It is known that the bryophyte very easily affected by air pollutants in the form of gases and particles.
Moss is particularly useful in this area caused by structural and ecological characteristics as follows:

   One. Several species grow in different habitats with a wide geographical distribution
   2. There has no epidermis and cuticle
   3. Usually get precipitation and precipitation of minerals from the whole body
   4. Some species have a thin habitus and grow menaun on certain body parts (ex: Hylocomium spenden)
   5. Transport of minerals is very simple in the absence of carrier network
   6. Accumulation of metals are not selective, but passively as ion exchange
   7. Most are perennial and grow on, and can be sampled throughout the year
   8. Treatment of lichen material for chemical analysis made easy
Use moss to horticulture
Some menus use the moss in horticulture:

   One. Soil additivis (additional soil materials), packing the roots, and herbaceous material (for fertilizer) / mulching.
   2. Materials ornamentation for the pot or bowl and tray landscape planting
   3. Tray hortikulutra attractive landscape is an art from Japan, where some moss is used with good results. Sebuha Bonkei creating miniature landscapes in a small border, where a shallow tray (shallow tray) which can be placed anywhere inside the house.
   4. Mosses are valuable items for bonkei because they have the right texture, charming, clean colors, shining throughout the year, and can survive drought (Kawamoto, 1981).
   5. Ground cover bonsai
   6. Bonsai is the art of simple and robust growth of dikerdilkan trees in pots. Whose names are here used carpet of moss. Moss carpet was instrumental in stabilizing the soil and retain moisture or steam.
   7. Ground cover garden
 


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