Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota (eBook)

Volume I, Biodiversity

David K. Camp, Darryl L. Felder (Herausgeber)

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2009
1312 Seiten
Texas A&M University Press (Verlag)
978-1-60344-269-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers, and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information. Presenting a comprehensive summary of knowledge of Gulf biota through 2004, the book includes seventy-seven chapters, which list more than fifteen thousand species in thirty-eight phyla or divisions and were written by 138 authors from seventy-one institutions in fourteen countries.This first volume of Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, a multivolumed set edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle, provides information on each species' habitat, biology, and geographic range, along with full references and a narrative introduction to the group, which opens each chapter.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.6.2009
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Limnologie / Meeresbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• ISBN-10: 1-60344-269-3 / 1603442693
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60344-269-5 / 9781603442695