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Marjorie Hingley Peter J. Hayward

Microscopic life in Sphagnum

Marjorie Hingley,  Peter J. Hayward,  Diana Herrett

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Pelagic Publishing
01 June 2021
Animal ecology; Insects (entomology)
Series: Naturalists' Handbooks
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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Illustrated by:   Peter J. Hayward, Diana Herrett
Imprint:   Pelagic Publishing
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 148mm, 
Weight:   265g
ISBN:   9781784272746
ISBN 10:   1784272744
Series:   Naturalists' Handbooks
Pages:   76
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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

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. 

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