Bibliography on Musgo de pantano, Sphagnum spp.

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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.

Photo by Dr Nicholas Hellmuth with an iPhone Xs

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