In this paper we report tardigrades collected from
cryptogams in Lesotho and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Thanks also are given to the
cryptogam staff of the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra, in particular to Heino Lepp and Judith Curnow, to Greg Chapple and the staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney for supplying Herbarium records, and to David Eldridge for permission to quote from his Cocoparra observations.
Li XR, Zhou HY, Wang XP (2003) The effects of sand stabilization and revegetation on
cryptogam species diversity and soil fertility in the Tengger Desert, Northern China.
In contrast, a
cryptogam indicator associated with black spruce communities that is being developed and tested brings the needed ability to determine the hydrophytic portions of both the vascular and
cryptogam aspects of the community.
Eldridge DJ, Greene RSB (1994) Assessment of sediment yield by splash erosion on a semi-arid soil with varying
cryptogam cover.
* Earlier classifications systems included cyanobacteria, algae, lichens, and bryophytes in the plant kingdom as
cryptogams, together with the pteridophytes.
Frequencies of occurrence of perennial grass, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum),
cryptogam crust, and native forbs also were measured by systematically placing 10, 1-[m.sup.2] frames along the N-S and E-W axes of each circular plot.
Yet mosses do not make up the bulk of the material, and some so-called cryptogamic crusts do not contain any organism that would fit under the name
cryptogam.
Selecting and Testing
Cryptogam Species for Use in Wetland Delineation in Alaska.
The least developed form of humus is the so-called
cryptogam crust, dominated by cyanobacteria and fungi, whether lichenized or not, so that the only true
cryptogams are a few bryophytes.
Eldridge and Kinnell (1997) observed that weighting
cryptogam cover with respect to its closeness to the downstream boundary improved the relationship between
cryptogam cover and erosion.