Author : Wolfgang Frey
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780946589708
This entirely new English edition, comprehensively revised and edited by T.L. Blockeel, has been translated from German, with some additional text, by the authors. In a single volume, this work provides users with the means of making at least a preliminary identification of any bryophyte or fern which they might encounter in Europe or Macaronesia.
Author : New York State College of Agriculture. Rural Education Department
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1922
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Dale H. Vitt
Publisher : Lone Pine Pub.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780919433410
Discover the world of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns. Contains descriptions of the major vegetation zones and species distribution maps. Habitats are described in detail and each plant group is keyed.
Author : E. Laurence Palmer
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Ferns
ISBN :
Author : Ron Porley
Publisher : Collins
Page : pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 2009-07-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780007308729
A long-awaited addition to the botany titles in the highly-regarded Collins New Naturalist series. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.com Mosses and liverworts - known as bryophytes - are a group of about 24,000 fairly low-growing plants which have no roots to speak of. Nor do they have flowers, but breed instead by spores. Both are commonly found in damp places, like ditches and beside streams. This authoritative guide explains their ecological importance, how they can act as environmental indicators and their general biology. With full-colour illustrations throughout, it covers: * distribution patterns and dispersal mechanisms * their relation with climate * historical uses for mosses * habitats and emmunities This is a branch of botany which has always relied heavily on amateur involvement, and the authors explain what amateurs can do today to increase our knowledge about these essential plants.
Author : Susan Munch
Publisher : Sunbury Press, Inc.
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0976092573
The first color field guide for mosses in the Mid-Atlantic region - its detailed color photographs allow easy identification of many of the commonest and most striking mosses andliverworts, without the use of a microscope."At last an accessible field guide for common Pennsylvania Mosses. The beautiful color photographs and clear descriptions make this book suitable for the non-botanist." Linda Ingram, Nolde Forest Environmental
Author : Ian Atherton
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Bryophytes
ISBN : 9780956131010
Author : IUCN/SSC Bryophyte Specialist Group
Publisher : World Conservation Union
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 2831704669
Bryophytes are of great importance in their ecosystems and for human well-being. They stabilize soil crust through colonization of bare grounds and rocks; they are essential in nutrient recycling, biomass production, and carbon fixing; they control water through an effective retention mechanism; and they have economic value as peat for fuel, horticulture, oil absorption, and as sources of a wide variety of chemical compounds. Bryophytes have long been used for medicinal purposes and provide a food source for reindeer, geese, ducks, sheep, musk-ox, lemmings, and other rodents. Threats include deforestation, cultivation of forests, reclamation of land, urbanization, roads, dam-building, mining, drainage of wetlands and over-grazing. This plan reviews the situation worldwide and proposes a variety of initiatives. It is aimed at those who work with and care about nature conservation, including governmental and non-governmental organizations as well as politicians and the general interested public.
Author : Ralph Pope
Publisher : Comstock Publishing Associates
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781501700781
This photo-based field guide to the more common or distinctive bryophytes of northeastern North America gives beginners the tools they need to identify most specimens without using a compound microscope.
Author : A. J. E. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2004-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521546720
This book describes and illustrates in detail the 760 species of mosses currently known to occur in the British Isles and incorporates the most up-to-date information available on classification and nomenclature, together with recent synonyms. The species descriptions provide information on frequency, ecology, geographical relationships and distribution, including information on protected species and those species at risk. For many species there are footnotes to aid identification. In addition to the species descriptions there are descriptions of families and genera and also introductory information on conservation, collection, preservation and examination of material, together with advice on using the keys. An artificial key to genera provides the only workable comprehensive key published in the English language. This second edition incorporates the very considerable advances in our knowledge of mosses made in the last quarter of the twentieth century and will provide a unique resource for all concerned with these fascinating organisms.
