Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Lancashire and Cumbria
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The historical counties of Lancashire, Westmorland and Cumberland have a rich diversity of geology, landscape, vegetation and wildlife. This is an account of a group of fascinating organisms, the slime moulds, which are neither slimy nor moulds, and have been shuffled between the animal and plant kingdoms, to neither of which they belong!After a short introduction to the biology and ecology of slime moulds, the physical and ecological environment of present-day Lancashire and Cumbria is described. The main part of the book is a detailed catalogue of all the species ever recorded in the region. The records date back to the nineteenth century but are mostly concentrated in the last sixty years, up to the present.Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Lancashire and Cumbria is a companion volume to The Slime Moulds of Cheshire, published in 2011 in the Biodiversity in the North West series.
