cryosere
English
Etymology
cryo- + sere
Noun
cryosere (plural cryoseres)
- (ecology, rare) 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, 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: , 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.
Coordinate terms
- lithosere