Waxing Brazilian Frontal

present their experience in the use of mosses for monitoring and control of environmental quality

From:
http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=755202

Logroño, March 30 (EFE) .- The seminar "The plants and the energy balance", organized today by the Government Logroño in La Rioja and the Gas Natural Group has analyzed the contribution of plants to meet the energy needs of society.

The conference, which has had a hundred participants, was inaugurated by the Minister of Environment, Government of La Rioja, Aránzazu Vallejo, and the director of Fenosa Gas Natural Foundation, Pedro Fábregas, as reported by the organization in a note.

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Finally, Professor of Botany, University of La Rioja, Javier Martínez, and biologist and environmental consultant Biovías manager, Ana Isabel Rey, have presented their experience in the use of mosses for monitoring and control of environmental quality through biomonitoring of different types pollution, both atmospheric and soil and water.

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LATMOSS and other sources of information


In 1995, with the support of the Missouri Botanical Garden, was published LATMOSS , the catalog of neotropical mosses. During the past fifteen years this database is continually updated based on available taxonomic publications. Publications floristic, though important, have been used with reservation as they want to have records sanctioned by specialists in most cases. Now LATMOSS is http://www.ibiologia.unam.mx/briologia/www/index/ for public use. LATMOSS
addition, the site includes bibliographic files, databases, MEXU protologue of mosses and a small gallery of photos that are not available elsewhere ( Aloinella and Grimmia ). Claudio Delgadillo M.

Swollen Finger From Frostbite Treatment

MOSS IN ANTARCTICA, A STORY OF SURVIVAL IN AN EXTREME ENVIRONMENT

TAKEN FROM: RADIO POLAR.COM

Although it is difficult to imagine, in the Antarctica is not all rock and glaciers. There is also a flora that has evolved and adapted to this extreme environment. Proof of this is the existence of terrestrial vegetation, especially of non-vascular plants (plants with no flowers) as lichens and mosses, which are present in areas not covered by ice for just 0.3% of the continent. These species are vital to the development of Antarctic life, especially the moss, widespread but little known about its distribution processes, and the role it plays in this pristine ecosystem.
Thus, questions arise spontaneously: Where do these mosses, how many years have lived in Antarctica, how have managed to stay for more than three thousand years in the continent? They are part of the expected answer questions that the project "Genetic variability Sanionia uncinata moss as a model for conservation", led by researcher and professor at the University of Magallanes (UMAG), the Agricultural Engineering and a PhD in Genetics, Ingrid Hebel.
The study is developed since 2009, aims to contribute to the knowledge of the variability, colonization and adaptation of populations of such mosses. Under the XLVII Antarctic Scientific Expedition, organized by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH), the research team of Dr. Hebel managed to gather important background on the colonization of moss Sanionia uncinata, in the field of Hannah Point on Livingston Island, information which until now was only brief in the literature.