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Moss : from forest to garden : a guide to the hidden world of moss
\"Discover the secrets of moss. Unassuming yet beautiful, moss has been used for centuries in gardens, medicine, and handicrafts around the world. It is most often associated with damp, shady spaces, but can be found in the most unexpected and far-flung places in the world, from deserts to Antarctica. Moss is Swedish writer and plant artist Ulrica Nordström's celebration of this humble plant. Nordström introduces readers to the key varieties of moss and where they can be found, and tours some of the most beautiful moss gardens in Oregon, Sweden, and Japan, where moss-viewing has become a national phenomenon. She also teaches readers how to identify and gather different moss species, cultivate moss, tie Japanese moss balls (kokedama), and plant moss landscapes in pots and terrariums. With stunning photography and botanical illustrations, this unique book will be treasured by plant lovers of all kinds\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The magical world of moss gardening
\"This book covers the essentials for creating an extraordinary moss garden. With profiles of the best mosses to grow and expert tips on planting and care, you can create fascinating combinations and establish a verdant oasis to enjoy for years to come\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Instrumentalism, Moral Encroachment, and Epistemic Injustice
According to the thesis of pragmatic encroachment, practical circumstances can affect whether someone is in a position to know or rationally believe a proposition. For example, whether it is epistemically rational for a person to believe that the bank will be open on Saturdays, can depend not only on the strength of the person's evidence, but also on how practically important it is for the person not to be wrong about the bank being open on Saturdays. In recent years, philosophers have argued that moral considerations can also affect the epistemic rationality of belief, thus giving rise to moral encroachment. In previous work (Steglich-Petersen, forthcoming a), I have developed an explanation of pragmatic encroachment grounded in an instrumentalist theory of epistemic reasons. Here, I argue that this explanation extends to moral encroachment as well, including so-called \"radical\" moral encroachment. I also show how this explanation dispels the worry raised by Gerken (2019), that pragmatic encroachment might give rise to morally adverse consequences in the form of epistemic injustice.
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Kate Moss
Created by Kate Moss herself in collaboration with creative director Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett, and Jefferson Hack, presents a retrospective of Moss's career, tracing her evolution from \"new girl with potential\" to one of the most iconic models of all time.
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Moss biocrusts buffer the negative effects of karst rocky desertification on soil properties and soil microbial richness
Background and aims
Karst rocky desertification (KRD), a land degradation form which is widespread but unique to karst ecosystems, has become an ecological disaster in southwest China. Biocrusts play crucial roles in many ecological processes of the degraded ecosystems. However, little is known about the effects of biocrusts on soil properties and soil microbial communities in the progression of KRD.
Methods
We sampled soil beneath moss biocrusts and bare soil in four grades of KRD (none, light, moderate, and severe) to compare soil nutrients, soil microbial diversity, community composition, structure, and networks across the range of KRD progression.
Results
Moss biocrusts had a positive effect on all soil nutrients and buffered the negative effects of KRD progression compared to bare soil. Moss biocrusts significantly increased soil microbial richness but had little contribution to diversity and community composition. Both soil bacterial and fungal communities were significantly correlated with total and available phosphorus, total potassium, soil temperature, slope, and altitude. Soil bacterial and fungal communities showed different sensitivities and strategies in face of environmental degradation in KRD-affected ecosystems.
Conclusions
Moss biocrust restoration could be used as a supplementary method in promoting ecological restoration in areas undergoing KRD due to their positive effects on soil nutrients and soil microbial richness. Our findings filled a knowledge gap pertaining to the microbial ecology of biocrust in regions experiencing KRD.
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الصبي الذي مات ثم عاد إلى الحیاة : مغامرات على قارب الحلم نحو كون متعدد
انضم إلى روبرت موس في رحلة لا تنسى من شأنها أن توسع إحساسك بالواقع وتؤكد أن هناك حياة بعد الموت وفي أبعاد أخرى للكون المتعدد، يصف موس كيف عاش حياة كاملة في عالم آخر عندما توفي في التاسعة من عمره في أحد مستشفيات ملبورن وكيف مات وعاد مرة أخرى، بمعنى آخر، في أزمة نشوء روحي خلال منتصف العمر، بينما يشارك مغامراته في المشي بين العوالم، نبدأ في الفهم، أن جميع الأوقات-الماضي والمستقبل والموازي-قد تكون متاحة الآن، \"قصة حياة روبرت موس غير العادية، التي تروى بجمال وشغف، تؤكد أن هناك حياة بعد الحياة وستلهم كل من يقرأها تجاوز الخوف من الموت وعيش حياة أكثر ثراء وأعمق.
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Integrative Taxonomy Reveals Hidden Diversity in the IAloina catillum/I Complex
Aloina catillum is a variable moss typical of xerophytic environments in the Neotropics, characterized against other closely allied Aloina species with well-differentiated leaf border by its setae twisted to the left throughout. In order to clarify its variability and its relationships with the allied species with differentiated leaf border A. brevirostris, A. obliquifolia, and A. rigida, we performed an integrative study including sequence data from four markers (nuclear ITS, plastid atpB-rbcL, trnG, trnL-F), morphometry, and species assembling by automatic partitioning (ASAP) algorithm. Our data suggest that A. catillum consists of at least three species: A. calceolifolia (an earlier name for A. catillum), and two species described here as a new, A. bracteata sp. nov. and A. limbata sp. nov. This latter species includes the specimens previously identified as A. obliquifolia from South America. Additionally, some morphological and molecular variability was also detected in A. limbata, but was not consistent enough to be recognized taxonomically. The study supports the presence of A. brevirostris in the Neotropics and A. rigida is tentatively excluded from South America. Full descriptions of the A. catillum s.l. species and a diagnostic key to this complex in South America are provided.
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Trump troubadour no more : how I lost faith in our president
\"Trump Troubadour No More tells the story of one man's journey from Trump apostle to adversary and serves as a cautionary tale from a supporter who feels betrayed by a candidate who didn't live up to his word\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Global ambient air quality monitoring: Can mosses help? A systematic meta-analysis of literature about passive moss biomonitoring
Surging incidents of air quality-related public health hazards, and environmental degradation, have prompted the global authorities to seek newer avenues of air quality monitoring, especially in developing economies, where the situation appears most alarming besides difficulties around ‘adequate’ deployment of air quality sensors. In the present narrative, we adopt a systematic review methodology (PRISMA,
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses
) around recent global literature (2002–2022), around moss-based passive biomonitoring approaches which might offer the regulatory authorities a complementary means to fill ‘gaps’ in existing air quality records. Following the 4-phased search procedure under PRISMA, total of 123 documents were selected for review. A wealth of research demonstrates how passive biomonitoring, with strategic use of mosses, could become an invaluable regulatory (and research) tool to monitor atmospheric deposition patterns and help identifying the main drivers of air quality changes (e.g., anthropogenic and/or natural). Besides individual studies, we briefly reflect on the European Moss Survey, underway since 1990, which aptly showcases mosses as ‘naturally occurring’ sensors of ambient air quality for a slew of metals (heavy and trace) and persistent organic pollutants, and help assessing spatio-temporal changes therein. To that end, we urge the global research community to conduct targeted research around various pollutant uptake mechanisms by mosses (e.g., species-specific interactions, environmental conditions, land management practices). Of late, mosses have found various environmental applications as well, such as in epidemiological investigations, identification of pollutant sources and transport mechanisms, assessment of air quality in diverse and complex urban ecosystems, and even detecting short-term changes in ambient air quality (e.g., COVID-19 Lockdown), each being critical for the authorities to develop informed and strategic regulatory measures. To that end, we review current literature and highlight to the regulatory authorities how to extend moss-based observations, by integrating them with a wide range of ecological indicators to assess regional environmental vulnerability/risk due to degrading air quality. Overall, an underlying motive behind this narrative was to broaden the current regulatory outlook and purview, to bolster and diversify existing air quality monitoring initiatives, by coupling the moss-based outputs with the traditional, sensor-based datasets, and attain improved spatial representation. However, we also make a strong case of conducting more targeted research to fill in the ‘gaps’ in our current understanding of moss-based passive biomonitoring details, with increased case studies.
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