Post by schneidried on Jun 25, 2018 16:39:05 GMT
Hello wordwide friends of carnivorous plants!
I am Paul Lamkowski, PhD student at Greifswald University, and particularly interested in peatmosses of the Genus Sphagnum. I am sure many of know this moss as some friend of many of your plants or as substrate. Driven by the many beautiful pictures of the book "Drosera of the World" I imagined to get in contact with people around the world, who are entering ares in which Sphagnum is most likely to be found, too. I hope that you can give me advices where to go to find my mosses. Images might provide great information because even that the mosses are almost impossible to determine by photography, a photo can occasionally show a totally knew species or such.
My overall goal is to visit, to study and to culture all of the ~300 Sphagnum species and to put my knowledge in a book then. This will require much but I am convinced it is worth it. Many species descriptions are over 100 years old, only documented/described once and not always good. Especiall Africa is underdocumentated and South America became a big "brawl" by many fast and bad descriptions in the second half of 20th century. I do not want to go into detail but I hope you to help me in getting to the right sites so that my travels will have a maximum of success.
Another aspect is your knowledge about your plants: To know what a plant likes makes it possible to tell the moss' ecology as well. Something I could barely do with a few test about the local water chemistry.
So please let me know if you have interesting findings!
Best reagrds,
Paul
I am Paul Lamkowski, PhD student at Greifswald University, and particularly interested in peatmosses of the Genus Sphagnum. I am sure many of know this moss as some friend of many of your plants or as substrate. Driven by the many beautiful pictures of the book "Drosera of the World" I imagined to get in contact with people around the world, who are entering ares in which Sphagnum is most likely to be found, too. I hope that you can give me advices where to go to find my mosses. Images might provide great information because even that the mosses are almost impossible to determine by photography, a photo can occasionally show a totally knew species or such.
My overall goal is to visit, to study and to culture all of the ~300 Sphagnum species and to put my knowledge in a book then. This will require much but I am convinced it is worth it. Many species descriptions are over 100 years old, only documented/described once and not always good. Especiall Africa is underdocumentated and South America became a big "brawl" by many fast and bad descriptions in the second half of 20th century. I do not want to go into detail but I hope you to help me in getting to the right sites so that my travels will have a maximum of success.
Another aspect is your knowledge about your plants: To know what a plant likes makes it possible to tell the moss' ecology as well. Something I could barely do with a few test about the local water chemistry.
So please let me know if you have interesting findings!
Best reagrds,
Paul
