Cryosere
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cryosere is a noun meaning (ecology, rare) A sere originating when moss colonizes ice.
Meaning
(ecology, rare) A sere originating when moss colonizes ice.
Example Sentences
These colonies of mosses invading the glacier surface appear to represent the earliest stages of a lithosere or, more precisely, a cryosere.
Colonization of mosses on glaciers, although unusual, is considered the earliest stage in a cryosere which regionally terminates in the development of hemlock forest.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cryophyte, xeriscence, xerept, hydrosere, therophyte, psychrophyte.
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