EcologybioRxiv
Life under quartz: Hypolithic mosses in the Mojave Desert
J. T. B. Ekwealor, K. M. Fisher
The paper examines hypolithic moss communities under milky quartz rocks in the Mojave Desert, finding niche partitioning between moss species in hypolith and surface microhabitats.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0235928