Field Guide to Sphagnum Mosses in Bogs
Author : John O'Reilly
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Peat mosses
ISBN : 9781851532766
Author : John O'Reilly
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Peat mosses
ISBN : 9781851532766
Author : George M. Briggs
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2021-07-16
Category :
ISBN : 9781942341826
Author : Gilles Ayotte
Publisher : Editions JFD
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 2897990937
Sphagnum mosses are small plants of the division of Bryophyta that are widespread and abundant in peatlands and several other types of wetlands. About sixty species of Sphagnum mosses are known for the territories of Quebec, Labrador and the Maritimes (with the exception of the island of Newfoundland). However, it can be laborious to identify these plants to the species taxonomic level. This book provides a unique dichotomous key for a visual identification of Sphagnum mosses that will help to demystify the lingo used in botany. To make it easier for identifiers, it also presents ways to recognize species in the field, notes about their habitats, and distribution maps. This document will be useful to ecologists, foresters, biologists and geographers involved in environmental management, as well as stakeholders responsible for managing the natural resources they protect or exploit. This guide is also intended as a tool for any naturalist or botanist working east of the Rockies, or in the Canadian Arctic. The botanists of the United States will find this document useful for the Sphagnum mosses found in Northern States or in the region of New England.
Author : Jukka Laine
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Peat mosses
ISBN : 9789515131430
Author : R.K. Wieder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 32,28 MB
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540319131
This is the first truly ecosystem-oriented book on peatlands. It adopts an ecosystems approach to understanding the world's boreal peatlands. The focus is on biogeochemical patterns and processes, production, decomposition, and peat accumulation, and it provides additional information on animal and fungal diversity. A recurring theme is the legacy of boreal peatlands as impressive accumulators of carbon as peat over millennia.
Author : Robert Braithwaite
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Mosses
ISBN :
Moose, Sphagnum
Author : George E. Nichols
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Dierck Michaelis
Publisher :
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2019-11-21
Category :
ISBN : 9783510480333
Sphagnum specialist Dierk Michaelis documents the worldwide known peat moss species (genus Sphagnum) and presents keys for their identification. It represents the updated, supplemented English language version of the author's original peat moss flora of 2011 (in German), the first overall presentation of Sphagnum since Carl Warnstorf's "Sphagnologia Universalis" of 1911. Compared to the German edition, 12 species have been added, 23 new plates were added, the chapters on phylogeny and research history have been revised and a new chapter on Sphagnum ecology has been added. Since Warnstorf's comprehensive work, numerous names have been recognized and revised as synonyms - particularly by Andrews, Eddy and Isoviita. These revisions, and the approximately 150 new species described since then, have been incorporated into this volume, as well as the results of the author's own studies. Genetic characteristics were used to define the species of problematic groups. The peat mosses are of key ecological and economic importance among the mosses. They populate almost all continents with a clear focus on northern South America, North America, East and North Asia and Europe. The genus Sphagnum is very isolated within the Bryopsida, similarities in the construction of the sporophyte indicate a distant relation to the rockmosses (class Andreaeopsida). For the internal classification of Sphagnum there are very different approaches with up to 4 subgenera and up to 18 possible sections, of which 14 are distinguished in this volume. Peat mosses in the narrow sense (genus Sphagnum) feature a combination of leaf dimorphism (stem and branch leaves), cell dimorphism (living chlorophyll and empty hyaline cells) and branch dimorphism (strongly assimilating spreading branches and hanging branches serving the outer water supply) that is unique among mosses. Although the assignment of any peat moss to the genus Sphagnum usually does not cause any problems, the determination down to the species level causes difficulties sometimes. The author introduces and describes the anatomy and morphology of Sphagnum, and explains the reproductive biology, the research history and phylogenesis of peat mosses. The systematic part is divided into three segments: Description and identification of the sections, keys for all peat moss species, separated by continents, as well as Sphagnum species lists for 20 phytogeographic regions of the world. The keys for Africa, Europe and North America are based on existing data and were revised and supplemented with the help of recent descriptions, updated species concepts and new floristic data. Completely new keys have been developed for South America and Asia, as these did not exist pr1eviously. 292 peat moss species are described in detail, supplemented by data on habitats, geographical distribution and lists of synonyms. This section is supplemented by the presentation of the inner and outer characteristics on 219 plates. A very extensive bibliography rounds off the volume.
Author : Jukka Laine
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Peat mosses
ISBN : 9789521056178
Author : Karl B McKnight
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1400845882
A comprehensive guide to the mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians This is the first book to help general readers recognize 200 common mosses of the Northeast and the Appalachian Mountains. With just this field guide, a hand lens, and a spray bottle—no microscopes necessary—readers will be able to identify and name many of the common species of mosses growing in the region's backyards, parks, forests, wetlands, and mountains. At the heart of this guide is an innovative, color-tabbed system that helps readers pick out small groups of similar species. Illustrated identification keys, colorful habitat and leaf photos, more than 600 detailed line drawings, and written descriptions help differentiate the species. This accessible book allows all nature enthusiasts to make accurate identifications and gain access to the enchanting world of mosses. 200 species included More than 600 detailed line drawings More than 400 color photographs Innovative color-tabbed system for species identification Illustrated species identification keys Helpful tips for moss collecting