Lichens and Mosses

Duration: 21

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1962

Creator: Martin Moyer Production

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Points out various characteristics of lichens and mosses and illustrates the wide diversity of their habitats. Discusses their shapes, colors, reproductive methods, nutrient requirements, and uses. Describes adaptive characteristics enabling them to survive in such diverse habitats as streams, forests, deserts, and mountains., Follows Dr. Grace E. Howard and Dr. Elva Lawton, botanists from Washington University Department of Botany, on a field trip in search of specimens for their lichen and moss collections, showing them as they go to the habitats of lichens and mosses for the purpose of examining and identifying a few of the common and interesting species.

Complete Record: Points out various characteristics of lichens and mosses and illustrates the wide diversity of their habitats. Discusses their shapes, colors, reproductive methods, nutrient requirements, and uses. Describes adaptive characteristics enabling them to survive in such diverse habitats as streams, forests, deserts, and mountains., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.