Fig. 2. Moss bed at Robinson Ridge fed by snowmelt: (a) overview of a moss plot showing the high spatial variability of healthy (green), stressed (brown/red), and moribund moss within a small area; (b) detailed subset of the above photograph showing the influence of small topographic variation (micro-topography) on moss health (the disks are 10 cm in diameter). (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of the article.)