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Microscopic life in Sphagnum (Hardcover)
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Microscopic life in Sphagnum (Hardcover)
Series: Naturalists' Handbooks, 20
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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. This is
digital reprint of 0855462914 (1993).
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