Pygmy pocket moss (Fissidens exilis) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 12
Acknowledgements and Authorities Contacted
The author gratefully acknowledges the helpful correspondence of Mike Oldham regarding his collections of F. exilis. Anne Godbout and other staff of the Morgan Arboretum were invaluable in facilitating the preparation and execution of field work in Montréal. Mike Shchepanek and Pak Yau Wong of the Canadian Museum of Nature provided access to specimens and the means to examine and record them.
Funding for the preparation of this status report was provided by the Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada.
Authorities contacted
- Ron Gould, Species at Risk Biologist, Aylmer District Office of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.
- Chris Gosselin, Manager of Environmental Planning for the Region of Waterloo, which manages the Sudden Tract where F. exilis was recorded in 1995.
- Deb Jacobs, Species at Risk Biologist with the Chatham office of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, which is responsible for the Cedar Creek ANSI in Essex County where F. exilis was found.
- Linda Ley of Ottawa, Ontario, an experienced bryologist with extensive experience in CANM collections, collectors, and collecting history, and who identified the MNR samples of F. exilis cited in this report.
- Mike Oldham of the Ontario Natural Heritage Information Centre, who collected F. exilis in Essex County, and who manages rare species occurrence data for Ontario.
- Marcia Waterway of the McGill University (MacDonald campus) herbarium.
- René Belland of the Devonian Botanic Garden in Edmonton Alberta, an experienced bryologist who has collected extensively in Canada.
- Robert Ireland of Annandale, Virginia, an experienced bryologist who identified several Canadian specimens of F. exilis.
- Valerie Towsley of the Lower Thames Conservation Authority, which manages Sinclair’s Bush Conservation Area where F. exilis occurred in 2002.
- Wilf Schofield of the Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, an experienced bryologist who has collected extensively in Canada.
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