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Beschreibung
Bogland habitat, which is often threatened by peat extraction, has enormous natural history value. As well as the better-known plants, dragonflies and birds, it supports a unique community of microscopic animals and plants inhabiting the leaves and crevices of Sphagnum, the moss that dominates bog vegetation. Under the microscope, a single drop of water squeezed from bog moss reveals a wonderful diversity of complex and distinctive organisms.
The peculiar characteristics of this bog moss habitat are described, and the book introduces the natural history and ecological interrelationships of its microscopic organisms, focusing in particular on the more obvious and elegant groups: the desmids, diatoms, shelled amoebae and rotifers or wheel animalcules. Identification is assisted by numerous detailed line illustrations and by the coloured plates. User-friendly keys will help the reader to allocate specimens to a group, and to name the more conspicuous genera of flagellates, desmids, diatoms, shelled amoebae and rotifers, as well as some species of Sphagnum itself.
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Bogland habitat, which is often threatened by peat extraction, has enormous natural history value. As well as the better-known plants, dragonflies and birds, it supports a unique community of microscopic animals and plants inhabiting the leaves and crevices of Sphagnum, the moss that dominates bog vegetation. Under the microscope, a single drop of water squeezed from bog moss reveals a wonderful diversity of complex and distinctive organisms.
The peculiar characteristics of this bog moss habitat are described, and the book introduces the natural history and ecological interrelationships of its microscopic organisms, focusing in particular on the more obvious and elegant groups: the desmids, diatoms, shelled amoebae and rotifers or wheel animalcules. Identification is assisted by numerous detailed line illustrations and by the coloured plates. User-friendly keys will help the reader to allocate specimens to a group, and to name the more conspicuous genera of flagellates, desmids, diatoms, shelled amoebae and rotifers, as well as some species of Sphagnum itself.
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Über den Autor
By Marjorie Hingley - Illustrated by Peter J. Hayward and Diana Herrett
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction - the bogland habitat
The Sphagnum plants and its physical and chemical environment
Life in Sphagnum
Identification: Key I Groups of organisms found in Sphagnum; Key II Some flagellates in Sphagnum; Key III Some genera of desmids in Sphagnum; Guide I Some genera and species of diatoms in Sphagnum; Key IV Some genera of testate rhizopods in Sphagnum; Key V Rotifers in Sphagnum; Guide II Some Sphagnum species common in Britain.
Techniques and approaches to original work.
Some useful addresses; References and further reading.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Zoologie
Genre: Biologie, Importe
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Naturalists' Handbooks
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781784272739
ISBN-10: 1784272736
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hingley, Marjorie
Illustrator: Peter J. Hayward
Diana Herrett
Hersteller: Pelagic Publishing
Naturalists' Handbooks
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 210 x 148 x 6 mm
Von/Mit: Marjorie Hingley
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2021
Gewicht: 0,163 kg
Artikel-ID: 120181853