[PDF] Manual For Bryophytes eBook

Author : Samit Ray
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2021-08-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000441458

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This book will enrich the readers theoretical knowledge about the fundamental aspects of bryology. There is a great significance of bryophytes in land plant evolution, water retention, prevention of soil erosion, nutrient cycling, nitrogen fixation and pollution monitoring. Considering this, the authors found it necessary to provide a basic guideline to the students to study the bryoflora. The present manual for bryophytes will provide practical guidelines for collection and recording of bryophytes, methodologies for studying it's morphology, morphometry and internal structure, modern approach to bryophytes systematics and characterization of genera, taxonomic importance of spore ornamentation as revealed by the Scanning Electron Microscopy, significance of bryophyte conservation and basic methods of in vitro study. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Mohammed Gufran Khan
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2012
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ISBN : 9783844323733

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The present book ' practical manual for bryophytes and pteridophytes has been written as an elementary text for biology graduates taking bryophytes and pteridophytes as compulsory course, not as a text book for researcher. Beginning with simple classification and salient features of different groups of cryptograms plants, it deals with important aspects of representative genus of bryophytes and pteridophytes. Students can easily follow and be benefited from manual while performing lab activities. Topics on preparation of herbarium and glossary of terms are attraction of book. Text is well supported by relevant diagrams also. At the end of each chapter relevant questions are given for further discussion on the subject.

Author : A. Jonathan Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2000-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521667944

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A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the morphology, systematics, ecology, and evolution of this fascinating group of plants.

Author : A. Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400958919

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There has been an increasing interest in bryophyte ecology over the past 100 or so years, initially of a phytosociological nature but, additionally, in recent years, of an experimental nature as well. Early studies of bryophyte communities have led to detailed investigations into the relationships between the plants and their environment. Ecological papers, the large number of which is evidenced by the length of the bibliographies in the subsequent chapters, have appeared in numerous journals. Yet, apart from review chapters, by H. Gams and P. W. Richards in Manual of Bryology, edited b:; H. Verdoorn in 1932 and chapters in E. V. Watson's Structure and Life of Bryophytes, Prem Puri's Bryophytes - A Broad Perspective and D. H. S. Richardson's The Biology of Mosses, published in 1972,1973 and 1981 respectively, no general accounts of bryophyte ecology have been published. Although the Bryophyta is a relatively small division of plants, with between 14000 and 21000 species the interest that they have aroused is out of all proportion to the size either of the plants or of the division. It is evident, however, that despite their relative insigni ficance they play an important ecological role, especially in extreme environments and, in the case of bryophytes in tropical cloud forests and of Sphagnum, may even be a dominant factor in the ecology of the area concerned.

Author : Alain Vanderpoorten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107377366

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Bryophytes were a pivotal step in land plant evolution, and their significance in the regulation of ecosystems and the conservation of biodiversity is becoming increasingly acknowledged. This introductory textbook assumes no prior knowledge of bryophyte biology, making it ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as amateur botanists. The authors expertly summarise the diversity of bryophytes and outline recent advances in our understanding of their evolutionary history, their ecological roles and preferences, their distribution patterns and conservation needs. The text is highly illustrated throughout, with boxed summaries of topics of current relevance in bryophyte biology, and a glossary of technical terms.

Author : Rashid A.
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788125905691

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This endeavour is aimed to be comprehensive and innovative. It covers the entire course of reading in Bryology. After a brief Introduction, there is an account of array of diversity and development of Bryophytes. In three chapters on Liverworts, Hornworts and Mosses, one can find an illustrated and concise account of all representative types. It is followed by comparative morphology. In two chapters on Gametophyte and Sporophyte are unravelled the elements of unity in diversity. Due emphasis has been given to experimental studies. In five chapters are traced the events of life cycle; Spore germination, Protonema differentiation and Gametophyte initiation, Sexuality and Sporophyte development, Regeneration, and Alternation of generations. Experimental studies – a backbone of this book – are not only interesting in a class room but informative to decipher different aspects of differentiation. Finally, there is food for thought in chapters on Cytogenetics and Evolution, and Origin and Fossil History. At the end is an extensive bibliography of old and new Literature, for further reading.