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Alpine Mushrooms of North America: Treasures Above Treeline - Softcover

Cripps, Cathy

 
9780252088933: Alpine Mushrooms of North America: Treasures Above Treeline

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Little-known and hard to find, the tiny mushrooms that grow above the treeline offer mycophiles rare opportunities—but also index the advance of global climate change. Cathy L. Cripps’s comprehensive nature guide draws on the twenty-five years of collecting and research that have made her North America’s foremost expert on alpine fungi.Features include: More than 200 color photographsSmall size perfect for use in the fieldIn-depth scientific information on 150 species, including some recently discovered and most not found outside alpine or Arctic habitatsDivision of species into ecological groups to aid with searching and identificationCoverage of the Rocky Mountains of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado, with extensions into British Columbia and Alaska, with many of the same mushrooms also found in the ArcticTips on collecting for both professional researchers and amateur enthusiastsA conservation-based approach aimed at the general public, mycologists, researchers, naturalists, land managers, and others Easy to use and charged with cutting-edge science, Alpine Mushrooms of North America is an expert guide to mycology’s final frontier.

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Cathy L. Cripps is an emeritus professor of mycology at Montana State University. She is the coauthor of The Essential Guide to Rocky Mountain Mushrooms by Habitat and the editor of Fungi in Forest Ecosystems: Systematics, Diversity, and Ecology.

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