Talk:Chorisodontium aciphyllum

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Did you know... that the moss species Chorisodontium aciphyllum can survive for more than 1,500 years frozen?

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Just noticed this on DYK :-). The Current Biology paper is mislabelled (glitch in the system, being resolved) and is actually available CC-BY - so there actually is a picture available here. Andrew Gray (talk) 09:58, 27 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Sadly the journal is "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works License" which is not an acceptable license for Wikipedia (both the noncommercial and no derivatives flags disqualify it). --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:53, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, this is a system labelling problem - the web service is reporting the paper as being CC-BY-NC-ND whereas the actual license is CC-BY. I hoped it would have been fixed sooner than this, but I'll remind the publisher about it next week and try to move it along!

If you'd like to use the image, I can forward the relevant confirmation of it being CC-BY to OTRS when needed (I signed the license paperwork, improbable as that sounds...) Andrew Gray (talk) 09:45, 5 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@ThaddeusB: - now fixed and all CC-BY :-) Andrew Gray (talk) 11:22, 10 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Primarily along Straits of Magellan or elsewhere[edit]

The lead says this moss grows primarily along coasts of he Straits of Magellan, but the description says this:

"It has been found in Argentina, Chile, Antarctica, New Zealand, and South Georgia.[1] As the moss banks grow taller, the layers more than an inch below the surface turn brown from lack of sun exposure and eventually become part of the permafrost.[2] The mounds of moss can grow to be more than 9 feet (2.7 m) tall.[3]"

Does it only grow along the Straits in Chile and Argentina, or does it grow everywhere in those countries? Does it have more plants long the Straits, than elsewhere, or what? Confusing. --(AfadsBad (talk) 18:20, 27 March 2014 (UTC))[reply]

My bad, I wrote "Straight of Magellan" when I meant "Drake's Passage" (previously corrected when originally flagged, thanks). --ThaddeusB (talk) 22:53, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I saw the quick correction already, thanks. I should have realized the error, because geographically a lot of people think that the name for Drake's Passage is the Straits of Magellan. Whether this was your error or not, it is common enough. --(AfadsBad (talk) 23:26, 2 April 2014 (UTC))[reply]