Urban heat Islands shape epiphytic communities of lichens and bryophytes.

( 2022 ) found that the bryophyte diversity in the Polish city of Wrocław showed a negative trend with variables related to increased urbanization, such as a lower NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) and a higher UHI, among other factors influencing species diversity.

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Despite the borderline non-significant influence of light availability on the biodiversity, we cannot discern a potential confounding effect of streetlamps on the epiphytic community.

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For bryophytes only, diversity increased linearly with the UHI, but seemed to decline at higher UHI values, explaining the borderline significant second polynomial of the bryophyte GLMM. “DBH”, as a proxy of the age of a tree, was also a significant factor in explaining the diversity of all species, but not for lichens and bryophytes separately.

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Nitrogen levels are generally still high in the Netherlands, although a decreasing trend in nitrogen pollution (from 2700 mol N/ha in 1990 to 1315 mol N/ha in 2023; Mijnen-Visser et al. 2025 ) and particulate matter (PM; Berkhout et al. 2024 ) is visible.

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