Microscopic Life in Sphagnum

by Marjorie Hingley, Peter Hayward (Illustrator), Diana Herrett (Illustrator)

Overview

As well as the better-known plants, dragonflies and birds, sphagnum moss supports a unique community of microscopic animals and plants which inhabit its leaves and crevices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784272739
Publisher:	Pelagic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2021
Series:	Naturalists' Handbooks , #20
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	76
Product dimensions:	5.99(w) x 8.33(h) x 0.25(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Peter Hayward began his career as a scientific assistant at the Natural History Museum, where he was introduced to his lifelong specialism, marine bryzoa or sea-mats. He read zoology with geology at Reading University, thence to University of Wales, Swansea as research student, gaining PhD in population biology and taxonomy of sea-mats.

He is now a senior lecturer at the university, and authority on bryzoa worldwide from Antarctic to coral reefs. Author with Professor John Ryland of four volumes on marine bryzoa in Linnaean Society Synopses series. Co-ordinator of the popular Collins Pocket Guide to the Seashore, co-editor and contributor to the Handbook of the Marine Fauna of north-west Europe (1995), as well as the Naturalists' Handbooks on seaweed and sandy shore habitats. Zoological editor of Journal of Natural History.

Table of Contents

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.