Changes in the lichen and bryophytes in a new nature area on a glacial deposit On a area of 5.7 ha, largely consisting of new nature on a glacial deposit, with adjacent gardens and meadows, 117 lichens, 57 bryophytes and 5 liverworts were found in 2011. In 1998, only 80 lichens were found in the same place, 11 of which, mostly ephemerous pioneer species, are now gone. Fuscidea austera was in 2011 found for the first time ever in the Netherlands, on a small erratic granite boulder. Mosses that are rare or so far unknown in the province of Drenthe include Entodon concinnus, Thuidium abietinum, Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus, Homalothecium lutescens, and Hylocomium splendens. They occur (and thrive) in parts of the nature-garden, supplied with lime, and may originally partly have been unintentionally imported with phanerogams. Other regional rarities are Archidium alternifolium and Warnstorfia exannulata, growing spontaneously along and in ponds. It is noticed that pioneer species among lichens and bryophytes disappear considerably earlier in the succession than comparable phanerogams, even while seemingly appropriate microhabitats, viz. bare loam and sand, are still present in places within the area.