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Bryophytes are the largest group of non-vascular plants that occur in almost any land ecosystem and have remarkable impact on ecosystem functioning at a global level. Despite that they have evolved an extraordinary chemical diversity, only a few bryophytic species have been studied using metabolomic techniques. Ecometabolomics systematically investigates the composition of metabolic compounds in bryophytes and relates these to organismal and environmental interactions. The application of ecometabolomics to bryophytic organisms can lead to new insights into their molecular biology, can identify novel bioactive natural products, can shed light on the phylogenetic and evolutionary mechanisms bryophytes realize in order to sustain ecological change, or can greatly improve the mechanistic understanding of ecological processes that are mediated by metabolic compounds at various levels. In this chapter, we first describe ecometabolomics and provide an introduction to how it can be performed. We then focus on case studies covering the various research fields of natural product chemistry, chemodiversity, chemotaxonomy/chemophenetics, functional ecology and plant traits, bioindication and biomonitoring, bioactivities, and the molecular biology of bryophytes. Finally, we present the latest advancements in analytic and computational methods to show the tremendous potential of the emerging technology of ecometabolomics for research with bryophytic organisms.
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