Bibliography on Musgo de pantano, Sphagnum spp.

Según Bartram (1949) y Salazar, et al. (2000) los musgos del género Sphagnum encontrados en Guatemala son los siguientes:

• S. compactum
• S. imbricatum
• S. limbatum
• S. magellanicum
• S. meridense
• S. sparsum
• S. subsecundum
• S. trirameum

   

PDF, Articles, Books on Sphagnum spp.

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• ALLEN, B.
• 1994
• Moss Flora of Central America, Part 1: Sphagnaceae-Calymperaceae. Vol. 1. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. 242 pages.

• BARTRAM, Edwin
• 1949
• Mosses of Guatemala. Fieldiana: Botany. Vol. 5. Chicago Natural History Museum.
  
  Available online:
  www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19737#page/21/mode/1up

• CLYMO, R. S. and P. M. HAYWARD
• 1982
• The ecology of Sphagnum. En SMITH, Aje (ed) Bryophyte Ecology. Champman and Hall. Pages 229-289.
  
  Sold online:
  www.springer.com/la/book/9789400958937

• CLYMO, R. S. and J. G. DUCKETT
• 1986
• Regeneration of Sphagnum. New Phytologist. Vol. 102, No. 4. Pages 589-614.
  
  Sold online:
  https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1986.tb00834.x

• CRUM, Howard
• 1989
• New tropical american species of Sphagnum. The Bryologist. Vol. 92, No. 1. Pages 98-104.
  
  Sold online:
  www.jstor.org/stable/3244022?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

• DOMÍNGUEZ, Erwin and Juan LARRAÍN
• 2012
• Sphagnum magellanicum (pompon): el musgo de la turbera. INIA-CRI-KAMPENAIKE. Informativo. No. 31. 2 pages.
  
  Available online:
  http://biblioteca.inia.cl/medios/biblioteca/informativos/NR40441.pdf

• DOMINGUEZ, E. and D. VEGA
• 2015
• Funciones y servicios ecosistémicos de las turberas en Magallanes. INIA-CRI-KAMPENAIKE. No. 33. 334 pages.
  
  Available online:
  www.researchgate.net/publication/278849699_Funciones_y_servicios_
  ecosistemicos_de_las_turberas_en_Magallanes

• GUERRA, J. and R. M. CROS
• 2004
• Flora briofítica Ibérica. Sociedad Española de Briología (SEB). 74 pages.
  
  Available online:
  www.rjb.csic.es/jardinbotanico/ficheros/documentos/pdf/pubinv/
  JMF/2004_Flora_briofitica_iberica_Sphagnum.pdf

• LAINE, Jukka, IVAR, Kjell, HARJU, Pirkko, TIMONEN, Tuuli, MINKKINEN, Kari, LAINE, Anna, STIINA, Eeva and Harri VASANDER
• 2018
• Sphagnum Mosses. The Stars of European Mires. Sphagna Ky. 326 pages.
  
  Available online:
  https://blogs.helsinki.fi/peatlanders/files/2018/09/Esite_Sphagnum1.pdf
  
  Note: only identification guide available.

• NAUMOVA, G. V., TOMSON, A. E., ZHAMAKOVA, N. A., MAKAROVA, N. L. and T. F. OVCHINNIKOVA
• 2015
• Biologically active compounds of different Sphagnum peat species. Solid fuel chemistry. Vol. 49, No. 3. Pages 135-140.
  
  Sold online:
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0361521915030088

• PODTEROB, A. P. and E. V. ZUBETS
• 2002
• A history of the medicinal use of plants of the genus Sphagnum. Pharmaceutical chemistry journal. Vol. 36, No. 4. Pages 192-194.
  
  Sold online:
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1019884605441

• RAMSAR
• 2016
• Las turberas. Humedales para la reducción del riesgo de desastres. RAMSAR.
  
  Available online:
  www.ramsar.org/es/themes/las-turberas

• SALAZAR, Noris, De GARCÍA, Jose and Clementina CHUNG
• 2000
• Aporte al catálogo de musgos de Guatemala. 52 pages.
  
  Available online:
  www.researchgate.net/profile/Jose_De_Gracia/publication/277955230_
  Aporte_al_Catalogo_de_musgos_de_Guatemala_In_Cano_Enio_B_
  Biodiversidad_de_Guatemala/links/557f625608aeb61eae2617f0.pdf

• SPENCER, Marcia and Neal TAYLOR
• 2005
• Regeneration of three Sphagnum species. Wetlands Ecology and Management. Vol. 13. Pages 635-645.
  
  Sold online:
  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11273-005-0125-2

• SUNDBERG, Sebastian and Hakan Rydin
• 2002
• Habitat requirements for establishment of Sphagnum from Spores. Journal of Ecology. Vol. 90, No. 2. Pages 268-278.
  
  Sold online:
  www.jstor.org/stable/3072131?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

• TAPIA, Carolina
• 2008
• Crecimiento y productividad del musgo Sphagnum magellanicum Brid. En turberas secundarias de la provincia de Llanquihue, Chile. Universidad Austral de Chile. 83 pages.
  
  Available online:
  http://cybertesis.uach.cl/tesis/uach/2008/fat172c/sources/fat172c.pdf

• TOWNSEND, Cliff
• 1998
• A checklist of the Mosses of Belize. Tropical Bryology. Vol. 15. Pages 89-100.
  
  Available online:
  https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/14529976.pdf

   

Suggested webpages with photos and information on Sphagnum spp.

www.gbif.org/species/2668958
Map location and photos.

https://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/activities/mosses/Sphagnum%20compactum.pdf
Identification of S. compactum.

https://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/activities/mosses/Sphagnum%20austinii.pdf
Identification of S. imbricatum subsp. austinii.

http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/world-flora/details.php?irn=28370
Information of S. limbatum.

https://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Activities/mosses/Sphagnum%20magellanicum.pdf
Identification of S. magellanicum.

http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/world-flora/details.php?irn=28364
Information of S. meridense.

https://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Activities/mosses/Sphagnum%20subsecundum.pdf
Identification of S. subsecundum.

   

First posted, April 2019
Bibliography prepared by Marcella Sarti, FLAAR Mesoamerica