bryobiont

plural bryobionts

1. Any organism that lives in moss.

   In association with mosses, Protozoa may be divided into three types, namely bryobiont, bryophile and omnicolous.

   1981, Symposium on Qinghai Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, Geological and Ecological Studies of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau: Environmental and ecology of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, Science Press, page 1121

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   The hydrophilid Cretinis punctatostriata is a true bryobiont, spending its entire life in Sphagnum (Matthey, 1977).

   1982, A. Smith, editor, Bryophyte Ecology, Springer Netherlands, page 302

   Mosses regularly serve as camouflage for some tropical weevils by growing on their backs (Gressit et al. 1968), and mimicry of mosses has been reported among bryobiont insects (Gerson 1982).

   1984, Hattori Shokubutsu Kenkyūjo, Hattori Shokubutsu Kenyūsho hōkoku, number 55, Hattori Botanical Laboratory, page 159

   As such, their role in habitat modification, nutrient cycling, primary production and providing shelter and security to associated invertebrate animals - the bryobionts, bryophiles, bryoxenes as well as occasionals, assume a particular significance.

   2002, Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India, volumes 44-45, Botanical Survey of India, page 31