Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts
Title | Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts PDF eBook |
Author | Ralph Pope |
Publisher | Comstock Publishing Associates |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | 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.
How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts
Title | How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Shoemaker Conard |
Publisher | WCB/McGraw-Hill |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts
Title | Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts PDF eBook |
Author | IUCN/SSC Bryophyte Specialist Group |
Publisher | World Conservation Union |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2000-01-01 |
Genre | 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.
The Liverworts, Mosses and Ferns of Europe
Title | The Liverworts, Mosses and Ferns of Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Wolfgang Frey |
Publisher | Apollo Books |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | 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.
Bryophytes of Colorado
Title | Bryophytes of Colorado PDF eBook |
Author | William Alfred Weber |
Publisher | Pilgrims' Process |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Mosses, Liverworts [and] Hornworts of Kenya
Title | Mosses, Liverworts [and] Hornworts of Kenya PDF eBook |
Author | Min S. Chuah-Petiot |
Publisher | |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Bryophytes |
ISBN | 9782952091404 |
Mosses and Other Bryophytes
Title | Mosses and Other Bryophytes PDF eBook |
Author | William McLagan Malcolm |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
"An illustrated glossary of terms that are used to describe mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. Written in informal prose, it's intended to be an everyday reference for not only bryology and botany students, but also gardeners and anybody who's interested in plants. The second edition has half again as many pages (over 330) and illustrations (nearly 1400) as the first edition did, and two-thirds of those illustrations are new. Over 530 species of bryophytes are illustrated. Also, an appendix explains how to photograph bryophytes without a camera."--NHBS Environment Bookstore.