Mosses Identified on Deadwoods in the Research and Application Forest of the Çankırı Karatekin University, Faculty of Forestry

It is a certain fact for the forest ecosystem that the death of a tree gives way to other lives. Survival of many insects, birds, fungi, lichens, Liverworts and Mosses within life circle depend partly or mainly on those dead trees. That is why dead trees are also named as ‘Biotope Tree', ‘a living space with high biological diversity' or ‘a hotspot'; the center for biological diversity in forest. Research area has been assigned as ‘Research Forest' to Çankırı Faculty of Forestry of Ankara University by the decision of Council of Ministers. However, research studies that have been carried out so far in the area are insufficient. It is aimed to get more information from the area by this study and similar ones. In this study, mosses have been listed with pictures identified on dead woods and logs in the area. Forest field survey was done so as to identify the bryophytes on dead logs and woods at the Research and Application Forest of Çankırı Faculty of Forestry within 2015-2016. As a result of identification studies of 80 mosses samples taken from the area 25 taxons have been confirmed among 15 genus and 10 families.