cryosereとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cryosere (複数形 not attested)

1. (ecology, まれに) A sere originating when moss colonizes ice.
   • 1972, Calvin J. Heusser, “Polsters of the moss Drepanocladus berggrenii on Gilkey Glacier, Alaska”, in Torreya, volume 99, number 1, JSTOR 2484240, pages 34-36:

     Colonization of mosses on glaciers, although unusual, is considered the earliest stage in a cryosere which regionally terminates in the development of hemlock forest.

   • 2014, Dickson, James H.; Johnson, Robert E., “Mosses and the beginning of plant succession on the Walker Glacier, southeastern Alaska”, in Lindbergia, volume 37, number 2, DOI:10.25227/linbg.01052, pages 60-65:

     These colonies of mosses invading the glacier surface appear to represent the earliest stages of a lithosere or, more precisely, a cryosere.