A Student's Guide to the Seashore
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2011
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3rd Revised edition
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-72059-5 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-72059-5 (ISBN)
This unique, concise, beautifully-illustrated guide has been carefully designed for students, teachers and naturalists. User-friendly dichotomous keys lead to the identification of over 650 common and widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore. Each species has detailed notes on diagnostic features and biology. Now with 32 pages of colour.
This unique, concise and beautifully-illustrated guide allows students to identify over 650 of the common, widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore. User-friendly dichotomous keys are supported by details of diagnostic features and biology of each species. Now enhanced with 32 pages of colour, this much acclaimed guide is invaluable to students of marine biology at any level. Questions such as how does the species reproduce? What is its life-cycle? How does it feed? are answered in the notes accompanying each species to give a fascinating insight into the diversity and complexity of life on the shore. The text is supported by an extensive glossary of scientific terms and a comprehensive bibliography is included to aid further study. The third edition builds on the excellent reviews of earlier editions and will continue to appeal to a wide readership, including students, teachers and naturalists.
This unique, concise and beautifully-illustrated guide allows students to identify over 650 of the common, widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore. User-friendly dichotomous keys are supported by details of diagnostic features and biology of each species. Now enhanced with 32 pages of colour, this much acclaimed guide is invaluable to students of marine biology at any level. Questions such as how does the species reproduce? What is its life-cycle? How does it feed? are answered in the notes accompanying each species to give a fascinating insight into the diversity and complexity of life on the shore. The text is supported by an extensive glossary of scientific terms and a comprehensive bibliography is included to aid further study. The third edition builds on the excellent reviews of earlier editions and will continue to appeal to a wide readership, including students, teachers and naturalists.
John Fish is the former Director of the Institute of Biological Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Aberystwyth University. Susan Fish is a Research Associate in the Institute of Biological Sciences at Aberystwyth University.
Preface; Acknowledgements for illustrations; Introduction; Design and layout of the book; Illustrated guide to the plants and animals of the shore; Seaweeds; Lichens; Anthophyta; Porifera; Cnidaria; Ctenophora; Platyhelminthes; Nemertea; Priapula; Annelida; Mollusca; Arthropoda; Sipuncula; Echiura; Bryozoa; Phoronida; Echinodermata; Hemichordata; Chordata; Plates; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.1.2011 |
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Zusatzinfo | 88 Plates, color; 408 Line drawings, black and white |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 189 x 246 mm |
Gewicht | 1210 g |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Limnologie / Meeresbiologie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
Schlagworte | Strand |
ISBN-10 | 0-521-72059-1 / 0521720591 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-72059-5 / 9780521720595 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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