More like a verdant rug than a forest or pasture, the humble moss packs a surprising lot of punch for being such a small plant.
, these ancient organisms are more simplistic in their structure than their more modern descendents, with sprigs full of tiny leaves, typically just one cell thick. But that doesn't make them any less mighty.
Moss displaying two adult stage shoots called sporophytes which produce its reproductive spores. These depend on the dominant gametophyte stage for nutrition. "You've got all the global emissions from land use change, such as grazing, clearing vegetation and activities associated with agriculture,""We think mosses are sucking up six times more carbon dioxide, so it's not one to one, it's six times better."
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