A Student’s Guide to the Seashore

J.D. Fish (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

474 Seiten

1989 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-04-574044-4 (ISBN)

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At one time or another, we have all been drawn by the fascination of the seashore. For the holiday maker, the relaxing day by the sea often turns out to be a most rewarding foray among rock pools and dense canopies of seaweed; for naturalists and students, the shore is one of the most challenging habitats. Whatever our interests and expertise, one of our first objectives when faced with the diversity of plant and animal life on the shore is to name the individual specimens and we quickly learn that this can be a difficult, though rewarding, occupation. Once an organism has been identified, a number of questions naturally follow. What is its life-cycle? How does it feed and reproduce? How long does it live? The answers to such questions give an insight into the lives of the plants and animals of the shore and are one of the first steps in an understand ing of the complexity of the shore environment. However, the information required to answer such questions is not always easily accessible and even when it is known it is often scattered in various books and research journals making it difficult and time consuming to find. Although a variety of identification keys and guides is available, some designed for the specialist, others for the amateur, such texts generally give little, if any, information on the biology of the organisms.

The seashore.- Collection of specimens.- Nomenclature and classification.- Design and layout of the book.- Illustrated guide to the plants and animals of the shore.- Algae.- Lichenes.- Angiospermae.- Porifera.- Cnidaria.- Ctenophora.- Platyhelminthes.- Nemertea.- Priapula.- Annelida.- Mollusca.- Arthropoda.- Sipuncula.- Echiura.- Bryozoa.- Phoronida.- Echinodermata.- Hemichordata.- Chordata.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.11.1989
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 474 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Limnologie / Meeresbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
ISBN-10	0-04-574044-5 / 0045740445
ISBN-13	978-0-04-574044-4 / 9780045740444
Zustand	Neuware