Algas, Hongos y Fanerógamas Marinas de las Islas Canarias: Clave Analitica [Seaweed, Fungi and Marine Phanerogams of the Canary Islands: Analytical Key]

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Language: Spanish

This book is based on a guide to Canarian marine plants the authors wrote in 1989 that has been a mainstay for students in laboratory practice and postgraduate research. However, in recent years, they have observed how this key began to lose effectiveness due to considerable advances in our knowledge of the marine flora of the Canary Islands. In addition, and as a result of the constant use to which it has been subjected, innumerable suggestions were emerging that involved a new structuring and the incorporation of numerous modifications. For both reasons, it has been necessary to prepare this new key, which includes 201 more species than in the previous version.

Thus, for multicellular benthic algae (neither planktonic algae nor unicellular algae are treated in this work) it has been necessary to complete the key with numerous additions made in recent years by a large number of authors. The key is entirely original, except in the case of the genus Dictyota in which the authors have adapted the proposal by Hörnig et al. (1992b).

They have also updated the information for seagrasses, although in this group, poorly represented in the Canary Islands, the modifications have been minor. In this key, they have also included marine fungi, organisms that were not considered in the previous key. For higher marine fungi (unicellular fungi are not considered in this work) they have followed Kohlmeyer (1967), Kohlmeyer & Volkmann-Kohlmeyer (1998) and Samson et al. (1990).

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