I was born and live in Bulgaria – a beautiful country, with a rich historical and cultural heritage, unique nature and high biodiversity. My first encounter with bryophytes was at the beginning of my MSc thesis, which aimed to establish the bioaccumulation capacity of aquatic mosses from the longest Bulgarian river originating in the country,…
Born and raised in Taiwan, I have loved plants since childhood. At college, biology was my first choice. After graduating, I continued my studies in graduate school with Prof. Shan-Hsiung Lin, who was the professor teaching plants and the leading moss expert in Taiwan. Under his guidance, Plagiochila was my research topic at that time….
I grew up in rural Northern California, and in retrospect, I was always surrounded by bryophytes, although I didn’t take notice until much later in life. Priced out of the San Francisco housing market in 1974 (yes, it has been unaffordable for that long), my parents bought some land in the Coast Ranges about 60…