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Type: Article
Published: 2013-01-01
Page range: 1–13
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Hepatic flora of a Guatemalan cloud forest

Biology Department, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. College of Natural Resources Building, room 167. Stevens Point, WI 54481-3897, U.S.A.
Biology Department, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, P O Box 23301, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3301
Departamento de Biología. Consultoría y Tecnología Ambiental S.A., México & Centro América Tronco 1, Sector E, Lote 14; El Encinal, zona 7 de Mixco, Guatemala, Guatemala
Herbario USCG, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Avenida Reforma 0-63 Zona 10, Ciudad Guatemala, Guatemala
Liverworts Central America Guatemala Marchantiophyta Hepaticae.

Abstract

We report here 92 species of liverworts from the “Biotopo Universitario para la Conservación del Quetzal”, in the highlands of central Guatemala. Due to rapid habitat destruction in surrounding areas, this study - the first ever of the hepatic flora of a Guatemalan cloud forest- is an important baseline for future efforts to monitor environmental changes in this richly diverse ecosystem. With these additions the hepatic flora of Guatemala increases to 264 species.

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