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Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Cheshire

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    Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Cheshire Author: Format: Paperback First Published: Published By: University of Chester Press
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    Pages: 85 Illustrations and other contents: 97 Maps, five colour illustrations ISBN: 9781905929917 Categories: ,

    The county of Cheshire, in its broadest, historical sense, has a rich diversity of wildlife, linked to a varied geology and land use. This is an account of a group of strange but fascinating organisms, the slime moulds,  which straddle the boundaries between fungi and protozoans.

    After a short introduction to the biology and ecology of slime moulds, the physical and ecological environment of wider Cheshire is described. The main body of the work is a detailed catalogue of all the species ever recorded in the district. The records date back into the 19th century but are mostly concentrated in the last 40 years, since the author came to Chester. There are more than 90 maps, on a 5 km grid square base, of the commoner species.

    Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Cheshire is a companion text to the upcoming Biodiversity in the North West: The Slime Moulds of Lancashire and Cumbria

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    Author Biography

    Bruce Ing is Visiting Professor of Environmental Biology and Emeritus Professor of Applied Science at the University of Chester, has studied slime moulds since 1957 and is a world authority on the group. He has published more than 200 papers on slime moulds and has produced the standard work on the British and Irish species, reprinted in 2020. He lived in Mold for nearly forty years but is now retired to the north-west Highlands of Scotland, where he continues to research the local fungi.