Illustrated Moss Flora of Antarctica

Informationen zum Autor Ryszard Ochyra is Head of the Laboratory of Bryology at the Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków. He has undertaken fieldwork in Tanzania, South Africa, Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Prince Edward Islands, Îles Crozet and Îles Kerguelen. He has received numerous awards including the prize from the Prime Minister of the Polish Government in 2000 for outstanding scientific achievement. Ronald I. Lewis-Smith joined the British Antarctic Survey in 1964 as a cryptogamic ecologist, and in 1975 he was appointed as head of the BAS Plant Biology Section. He worked extensively throughout South Georgia, South Orkney and South Shetland Islands, and the Antarctic Peninsula and continental Antarctica, before retiring from BAS in 2002. He was awarded the British Polar Medal in 1977 and a clasp in 2002 in recognition of his contribution to Antarctic science. Halina Bednarek-Ochyra is based at the Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, where she became Curator of the Bryophyte Herbarium in 1993. She is a skilled botanical illustrator, and in 1996 and 2004 was awarded a prize by the Second Division of the Polish Academy of Sciences for outstanding scientific achievements. Klappentext Comprehensive description, with keys and extensive bibliography, of all known species and varieties of moss in Antarctica. Zusammenfassung This Flora provides the first comprehensive description! with keys! of all known species and varieties of moss in the Antarctic biome. Containing detailed line drawings alongside information about their reproductive status! ecology and distribution! this is an invaluable resource for Antarctic botanists! and bryologists worldwide. Inhaltsverzeichnis Taxonomic and nomenclatural novelties; Foreword Sir Martin W. Holdgate; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. History of muscological investigations in Antarctica; 3. Terrestrial environment and moss ecology of Antarctica; 4. Diversity and phytogeography of the moss flora; 5. Background to the Flora; 6. Systematic accounts of the taxa; Glossary; References; Index to Latin plant names....

Autorentext
Ryszard Ochyra is Head of the Laboratory of Bryology at the Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków. He has undertaken fieldwork in Tanzania, South Africa, Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Prince Edward Islands, Îles Crozet and Îles Kerguelen. He has received numerous awards including the prize from the Prime Minister of the Polish Government in 2000 for outstanding scientific achievement.Ronald I. Lewis-Smith joined the British Antarctic Survey in 1964 as a cryptogamic ecologist, and in 1975 he was appointed as head of the BAS Plant Biology Section. He worked extensively throughout South Georgia, South Orkney and South Shetland Islands, and the Antarctic Peninsula and continental Antarctica, before retiring from BAS in 2002. He was awarded the British Polar Medal in 1977 and a clasp in 2002 in recognition of his contribution to Antarctic science.Halina Bednarek-Ochyra is based at the Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences in Kraków, where she became Curator of the Bryophyte Herbarium in 1993. She is a skilled botanical illustrator, and in 1996 and 2004 was awarded a prize by the Second Division of the Polish Academy of Sciences for outstanding scientific achievements.

Klappentext
Comprehensive description, with keys and extensive bibliography, of all known species and varieties of moss in Antarctica.

Zusammenfassung
This Flora provides the first comprehensive description, with keys, of all known species and varieties of moss in the Antarctic biome. Containing detailed line drawings alongside information about their reproductive status, ecology and distribution, this is an invaluable resource for Antarctic botanists, and bryologists worldwide.

Inhalt
Taxonomic and nomenclatural novelties; Foreword Sir Martin W. Holdgate; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. History of muscological investigations in Antarctica; 3. Terrestrial environment and moss ecology of Antarctica; 4. Diversity and phytogeography of the moss flora; 5. Background to the Flora; 6. Systematic accounts of the taxa; Glossary; References; Index to Latin plant names.

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