Mosses, Lichens and Ferns of Northwest North America

Mosses, Lichens and Ferns of Northwest North America
Author: Dale H. Vitt
Publisher: Lone Pine Pub.
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1988
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780919433410

Discover the world of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns. Contains descriptions of the major vegetation zones and species distribution maps. Habitats are described in detail and each plant group is keyed.

Moss Gardening

Moss Gardening
Author: George Schenk
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Total Pages: 261
Release: 1997
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 9780881923704

A delightful book that encourages gardeners to pay closer attention to the subtle beauty of miniature landscapes and introduces one of the glories of Japanese gardens into American designs. The author writes entertainingly of mosses on rocks and walls, in containers, and as a lush ground cover, and he presents a gallery of his favorite moss species.

Mosses and Lichens

Mosses and Lichens
Author: Devin Johnston
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2019-05-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374719888

A new collection from the author of Traveler Not days of anger but days of mild congestion, infants of inconstant sorrow, days of foam in gutters, blossoms and snow mingling where they fall, a spring of cold profusion. If a rolling stone gathers no moss, the poems in Devin Johnston’s Mosses and Lichens attend to what accretes over time, as well as to what erodes. They often take place in the middle of life’s journey, at the edge of the woods, at the boundary between human community and wild spaces. Following Ovid, they are poems of subtle transformation and transfer. They draw on early blues and rivers, on ironies and uncertainties, guided by enigmatic signals: “an orange blaze that marks no trail.” From image to image, they render fleeting experiences with etched precision. As Ange Mlinko has observed of Johnston's work, “Each poem holds in balance a lapidary concision and utter lushness of vowel-work,” forming a distinctive music.

Mosses and Lichens

Mosses and Lichens
Author: Nina Lovering Marshall
Publisher:
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1907
Genre: Lichen-forming fungi
ISBN:

Common Mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians

Common Mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians
Author: Karl B McKnight
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2013-02-21
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1400845882

A comprehensive guide to the mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians This is the first book to help general readers recognize 200 common mosses of the Northeast and the Appalachian Mountains. With just this field guide, a hand lens, and a spray bottle—no microscopes necessary—readers will be able to identify and name many of the common species of mosses growing in the region's backyards, parks, forests, wetlands, and mountains. At the heart of this guide is an innovative, color-tabbed system that helps readers pick out small groups of similar species. Illustrated identification keys, colorful habitat and leaf photos, more than 600 detailed line drawings, and written descriptions help differentiate the species. This accessible book allows all nature enthusiasts to make accurate identifications and gain access to the enchanting world of mosses. 200 species included More than 600 detailed line drawings More than 400 color photographs Innovative color-tabbed system for species identification Illustrated species identification keys Helpful tips for moss collecting

The Forest Unseen

The Forest Unseen
Author: David George Haskell
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0143122940

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “Injects much-needed vibrancy into the stuffy world of nature writing.” —Outside, “The Outdoor Books That Shaped the Last Decade” The biologist and author of Sounds Wild and Broken combines elegant writing with scientific expertise to reveal the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forest In this wholly original book, biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life. Each of this book's short chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and describing the ecosystems that have cycled for thousands- sometimes millions-of years. Each visit to the forest presents a nature story in miniature as Haskell elegantly teases out the intricate relationships that order the creatures and plants that call it home. Written with remarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Haskell is a perfect guide into the world that exists beneath our feet and beyond our backyards.

Biomonitoring of Air Pollution Using Mosses and Lichens

Biomonitoring of Air Pollution Using Mosses and Lichens
Author: Mira Aničić Uroević
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Air
ISBN: 9781536100518

Air pollution has been recognised as the worlds top problem in many strategic environmental policies. However, it is still inadequately corroborated by regulatory monitoring due to the balance between costs and practicable constraints. The variability in air pollution patterns additionally emphasises a need for feasible approaches to extensive screening of pollutants. To achieve highly temporally -- and spatially -- resolved measurements, biomonitoring (ie: the use of living organisms to determine changes in the environment has been utilised in the investigating of a complementary method to regulatory measurements). The book aims to give reviews of research over the last decade of the most recommended organisms for monitoring airborne inorganic and organic pollutants. Naturally growing mosses and lichens have been used as passive biomonitors of long-term atmospheric deposition of the pollutants across remote areas. To overcome scarcity of these biomonitors in anthropogenically devastated areas, an active biomonitoring approach has been investigated. Specifically, the use of moss and lichen bags represents a convenient technique for easily performed biomonitoring of short-term and small-scale pollutant distribution, especially in urban and industrial areas. As a new direction in biomonitoring, magnetic properties of the biomonitors have been investigated as a valuable proxy for ambient particle pollution. This book moves beyond the attempt to promote biomonitoring as an effective approach for screening air quality that should be considered for implementation into laws and regulations against air pollution. Finally, the authors review the latest research in the field of air pollution biomonitoring, which is vital for everyone engaged in solving environmental issues.

Biology of Polar Bryophytes and Lichens

Biology of Polar Bryophytes and Lichens
Author: R. E. Longton
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 406
Release: 1988-11-10
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780521250153

Considers the evolution and adaptions of arctic and antarctic floras and the role of these plants in the vegetation and in the functioning of tundra ecosystems.

Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts

Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts
Author: Ralph Pope
Publisher: Comstock Publishing Associates
Total 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.

Forests of Lilliput

Forests of Lilliput
Author: John Hardesty Bland
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1971
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780133268683