Book ID: 116349
Luo Fen
Diatoms in the Hengduan Mountains, China. 2024. illus. 592 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.- In Chinese, with Latin nomenclature.
This book describes the diatom plants of the Hengduan Mountains in China, with a total of 1,079 species in 124 genera of 2 orders, 9 orders and 23 families (including varieties and variants). Among them, 8 new species and 121 newly recorded species in China are described.
All species are illustrated with light or electron microscope photographs, totalling 398 plates. The book provides the distribution, habitats and physicochemical indexes of diatom species, describes the zonation characteristics of diatoms in the Hengduan Mountain region, and analyses the effects of environmental factors such as altitude, water temperature, pH and water morphology on the distribution of diatoms.
This book is an important book for the study of algae in the Hengduan Mountains, and an important document for the study of freshwater diatoms in China. It can be used as a reference for workers in the fields of biology, botany, algal science, ecology, environmental science, geology and geography, teachers and students of related majors in colleges and universities, scientific workers in aquaculture and environmental protection, as well as scientific researchers and teaching staff in related disciplines.