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A long-awaited addition to the botany titles in the highly-regarded Collins New Naturalist series, now in its 60th year. As the 97th volume in the New Naturalist series it will be bought by collectors. Now full-colour throughout There is a successful mailing list for collectors of the series The New Naturalist series continues to go from strength to strength with titles appearing in the Booktrack Top 5000 A relatively little-studied aspect of botany, so the book should be of interest to the academic community This year sees the 60th anniversary of the long-running world renowned New Naturalist series

About the Author

Ron Porley works for English Nature as a botanist and is chief adviser on bryophytes. Prior to that, he worked for the Nature Conservancy Council and Shropshire Wildlife Trust. Nick Hodgetts worked as a botanist with governmental and non-governmental conservation organisations until 2001, when he became a free-lance botanist and bryologist. Also involved with the BBS and ECCB, he is co-author of the British and European bryophyte Red Data Books.