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Utilization of mosses in metropolitan green spaces: A biological way to lessen temperature and contamination
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The difficulties of air pollution, heat islands, and biodiversity impairment are worsening due to indiscrimenate growth and expansion of metropolises. Amongst the concrete jungles, one species of organism stands out as a potential confederate in dealing with these issues: Mosses, commonly known as bryophytes along with liverworts and hornworts, are typically ignored but provide incomparable aid to improve metropolitan environments. Comprising select moss species in metropolitan green zones may deliver a supportable, organic response to some of the most tenacious metropolitan complications. Mosses have an exclusive capacity to engross and clean airborne pollutants. Mosses have perhaps the best air purifying and oxygenating abilities in comparison to other plants, thereby providing one of the best natural air filters, serving to clean the air. Mosses have natural capacity to engross and metabolize fine dirt, altering hazardous particles into natural and harmless biomass, besides conserving and dispersing large amount of moistness, which freshens the air. The species that have been evaluated for their air-purifying capabilities are Grimmia pulvinata (Hedw.) Sm., Barbula unguiculata Hedw. and Homalothecium sericeum (Hedw.) Schimp. Interestingly, all these species are almost cosmopolitan in distribution with a broad habitat range, including metropolitan areas (Katia et al., 2025).
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Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Banasthali Vidyapith, Distt. Tonk-304 022 (India)
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