Gulf Stream Chronicles (eBook)

A Naturalist Explores Life in an Ocean River

David S. Lee (Autor)

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2015
302 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2394-8 (ISBN)

Autor

David S. Lee (1943-2014) was a writer, naturalist, conservationist, teacher, research scientist, and museum curator.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.8.2015
• Illustrationen: Leo Schleicher
• Vorwort: J. Christopher Haney
• Zusatzinfo: 22 drawings, 12 halftones, bibl., index, Foreword by J. Christopher Haney
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Reisen
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
• Schlagworte: algae • American eel • American shad • Atlantic blue fin tuna • Atlantic Ocean • Bahamas • Benjamin Franklin • Bermuda • Bermuda petrel • Bioluminescence • bottlenose dolphin • bryozoans • cahow • Cape Fear River • Cape Hatteras • Cape Hatteras fishing fleet • castaways • cetaceans • coelenterates • cold-blooded • Columbus • common loon • current and tides • deep-sea community • dolphin fish • fall migrants • Flying Fish • free-living marine invertebrates • freshwater eels • Gulf of Mexico • Gulf slopes • gulfweed • gulls • hagfish • hard bottom • Harkers Island • Hatteras whaling grounds • H. H. Brimley • Hydrozoans • inshore waters • lantern fish • Leatherback sea turtle • Loop Current • Manteo • marine fish • marine invertebrates • Marine Life • moon jellyfish • Nematocysts • Neotropical birds • nesting sea turtles • New Bedford whaling • New England whaling • nicker nuts • nineteenth century whalers • North America • North Atlantic • North Atlantic fall bird migration • North Carolina • Ocean Currents • oceanic abyssal zones • ocean sunfish • Outer Banks • Overfishing • pelagic birds • pilot whales • planktonic life • polychaete worms • Portuguese Man-o-War • salpas • sargassum • sargassum community • sargassum mats • sea beans • seabeans • seabirds • shad darts • shearwaters • Soviet-based fisheries • sperm whale • SQUID • submersible • tentacles • The Gulf Stream • the Outer Continental Shelf • “the Point” • the Sargasso Sea • tropical nesting birds • tropical pelagic birds • tropicbirds • tuna • Venom • violet snails • Virginia Capes • warm-blooded • whale strandings • wrack line • Yellowfin tuna
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2394-3 / 1469623943
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2394-8 / 9781469623948