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Science General

Most Wonderful in the Smallest

A Freshwater Microscopist's Year

by (author) Hernick

Publisher
McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company
Initial publish date
Jun 2017
Category
General
  • 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.

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