Most Wonderful in the Smallest
A Freshwater Microscopist's Year
- Publisher
- McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2017
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781935778370
- Publish Date
- Jun 2017
- List Price
- $30.95
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Description
The book is written as a first person narrative in the form of a journal. It comprises four chapters — Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter — and the entries within each season describe the sample—collecting forays to local freshwater environments during one year. Microscopic organisms encountered in the slides derived from the samples are discussed and illustrated. The major protist groups are all covered, as well as a few metazoans and bacteria. The purpose is to show the reader what wonderful life forms are present microscopically in freshwater environments all around us, and to demonstrate that viewing and photographing them does not require sophisticated means. Also explaining why micro—communities are important and should be conserved.