Nugget Moss (Microbryum vlassovii): COSEWIC assessment and status report
Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Status Report on the Nugget Moss (Microbryum vlassovii) in Canada
Table of contents
- COSEWIC Assessment Summary
- COSEWIC Executive Summary
- Species Information
- Distribution
- Habitat
- Biology
- Population Sizes and Trends
- Limiting Factors and Threats
- Special Significance of the Species
- Existing Protection or Other Status Designations
- Technical Summary
- Acknowledgements
- Literature Cited
- Biographical Summary of Report Writer
- Authorities Consulted
- Collections Examined
- Appendices
Endangered 2006
COSEWIC
Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada
COSEPAC
Comité sur la situation des espèces en péril au Canada
COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:
COSEWIC 2006. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the nugget moss Microbryum vlassovii in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 17 pp.
Production note
COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Terry T. McIntosh for writing the status report on the nugget moss Microbryum vlassovii in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada, overseen and edited by René Belland, Co-chair (Mosses and Lichens), COSEWIC Plants and Lichens Species Specialist Subcommittee.
For additional copies contact:
COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0H3
Tel.: (819) 997-4991 / (819) 953-3215
Fax: (819) 994-3684
COSEWIC E-mail
COSEWIC Website
Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur le phasque de Vlassov (Microbryum vlassovii) au Canada.
Cover illustration
Nugget Moss -- Illustration shows an entire plant, individual leaves (corresponding to scale bar A, 0.5 mm in length), spores, and a leaf cross section (the latter correspond to scale bar B, 50 μm in length). The round black structure within the plant is a spore capsule. The illustrator is P.M. Eckel. Reproduced with permission from Flora of North America (Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. Flora of North America North Mexico. 12+ vols. New York and Oxford.)
©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2007
Catalogue No. CW69-14/509-2007E-PDF
ISBN 978-0-662-45169-3
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