I am currently doing an ambitious project on Asterella californica's ecology! Somehow I'm even going to get electron microscope permissions, wew!
Right now I'm still in the "boring phase" of the experiment, but I did conclude that its absence from a Certain Restoration Site is in large part because the soil is too loose or has too many leaves (causes it to be smothered). The restoration staff adding so much mulch (again, fatal smothering) sure isn't helping the thing either.
Californian native gardeners in general use so much mulch and it pretty much kills cryptogams and tiny angiosperms wholesale. I've never seen natural mulches occupying any appreciably large areas in my area, even in log piles most of the litter is leaves instead of wood fragments.
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