Anales Instituto Patagonia (Chile), 2020. Vol. 48(3):127-138 127 ARTÍCULO CIENTÍFICO First bryophyte records from Diego Ramírez Archipelago: Changing lenses in long-term socio-ecological research at the southernmost island of the Americas Primer registro de briófitas en el archipiélago Diego Ramírez: Cambiando los lentes en estudios socio-ecológicos a largo plazo en la isla más austral de América Bernard Goffinet1,2, John J. Engel3, Matt Von Konrat3, Roy Mackenzie2,4, Tamara Contador2,4,5,6, Sebastián Rosenfeld2,4,7, Omar Barroso2,4, & Ricardo Rozzi2,4,8 Abstract for the long-term socio-ecological research and Long-term socio-ecological research requires conservation of the southernmost archipelago comprehensive assessments of biodiversity that of South America. Based on the field material overcome historical taxonomic biases, such as collected, the new nomenclatural combination the strong focus on the vascular flora. This is Chiloscyphus secundifolius (Hook. f. & Taylor) particularly relevant at high latitudes where the richness of non-vascular plant species exceeds that 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, of vascular species. Additionally, with respect to University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 USA; geographical regions, there is also a marked bias https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2754-3895 towards ecological and conservation research in
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