Moss

This photo was taken early this morning in my back yard, it is a section on the side of my house where moss completely covers all the soil we used to have over there. Mosses typically live anywhere that provides moisture and nutrients and can be easily dispersed since they spread asexually, pieces of the moss body can break of and move by wind or water and start a new plant. Moss is ecologically important as well as economically important; it can be used in various ways and has many benefits that I will talk about. Moss is economically important because it can be sold as food/fertilizer for other organisms and crops, which provides them with nutrients. Farmers/gardeners can also use it for making their soil fertile and use it as a “pesticide” because moss typically taste bad to common insect pest or bugs. We could use moss to help reduce air pollution; they clean our air and don’t need to be mowed so that would avoid the air pollution produced by mowers that millions of people use across the world. Some more ecological benefits of moss are that they’re used for erosion control that support in moisture control and stabilize soil that could be washed away by water or blown by the wind. Mosses occupy an ecological niche in certain ecosystems where it provides nitrogen fixation as well.

 

 

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