Mosses and Liverworts: Book 97 (Collins New Naturalist Library) - Hardcover

Porley, Ron; Hodgetts, Nick

9780007308729: Mosses and Liverworts: Book 97 (Collins New Naturalist Library)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007308728 ISBN 13: 9780007308729

Publisher: Collins, 2009

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.

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Synopsis:

A long-awaited addition to the botany titles in the highly-regarded Collins New Naturalist series, now in its 60th year. 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.

About the Author:

Ron Porley works for English Nature as a botanist and is chief adviser on bryophytes. Prior to that, he worked for the Nature Conservancy Council and Shropshire Wildlife Trust. Nick Hodgetts worked as a botanist with governmental and non-governmental conservation organisations until 2001, when he became a free-lance botanist and bryologist. Also involved with the BBS and ECCB, he is co-author of the British and European bryophyte Red Data Books.

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