| acrocarpous | Phylogenetic clade of bryophytes having mostly an erect stem and sporophytes originate at the top of stems |
| ANOVA | Analysis of Variance |
| AUC | Area Under receiver operating characteristic Curve |
| AUC-PR | Area Under Precision Recall Curve |
| Bar | Species code for Barbula unguiculata Hedw., ott1027526 |
| Bra | Species code for Brachythecium rutabulum (Hedw.) Schimp., ott734784 |
| Bryophytina | Subdivision of plants on which the phylogenetic tree was constructed, ott471195 |
| Cal | Species code for Calliergonella cuspidata (Hedw.) Loeske, ott405418 |
| dbRDA | Distance-based Redundancy Analysis |
| DIA | Data Independent Acquisition |
| dry | Factor level: Samples which were taken under herbarium conditions |
| fresh | Factor level: Samples which were taken under fresh conditions |
| Gri | Species code for Grimmia pulvinata (Hedw.) Sm., ott604969 |
| Hyp | Species code for Hypnum cupressiforme Hedw., ott160023 |
| LC/MS | Liquid chromatography coupled to a Mass Spectrometer |
| Mar | Species code for Marchantia polymorpha L., ott56596 |
| MS1 | Mass-spectral analysis |
| MS/MS | Tandem mass-spectral analysis where two MS are performed resulting in fragment spectra |
| ott | Phylogenetic identifier for species and phylogenetic groups |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| Pla | Species code for Plagiomnium undulatum (Hedw.) T.J. Kop., ott744339 |
| pleurocarpous | Phylogenetic clade of bryophytes having mostly a branched prostrate stem and sporophytes are produced in branches |
| Pol | Species code for Polytrichum strictum Menzies ex Brid., ott101288 |
| PR | Precision and Recall |
| R | R statistical programming language |
| R2 | R-squared |
| Rhy | Species code for Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus (Hedw.) Warnst., ott734791 |
| ROC | Receiver Operating Characteristic |
| sPLS-DA | Sparse Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis |
| SWATH | Sequential Windowed Acquisition of All Theoretical Fragment Ion Mass Spectra |
| Tor | Species code for Tortula muralis Hedw., ott318814 |
| Tukey HSD | Honestly significant difference test |
| XCMS | Framework to perform detection of chromatographic peaks |