Meaning of cryosere | Babel Free

Definitions

A sere originating when moss colonizes ice.

no-plural, rare

Examples

“Colonization of mosses on glaciers, although unusual, is considered the earliest stage in a cryosere which regionally terminates in the development of hemlock forest.”

“These colonies of mosses invading the glacier surface appear to represent the earliest stages of a lithosere or, more precisely, a cryosere.”

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