Question
What is the economic importance of moss?
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Answer
Economic Importance of Moss:
- Some mosses provide food for herbaceous mammals, birds and other animals.
- Species of Sphagnum, a moss, provide peat that have long been used as fuel, and because of their capacity to hold water as packing material for transshipment of living material.
- Mosses along with lichens are the first organisms to colonise rocks and hence, are of great ecological importance. They decompose rocks making the substrate suitable for the growth of higher plants.
- Since mosses form dense mats on the soil, they reduce the impact of falling rain and prevent soil erosion.
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