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The biology of soft shores and estuaries /

By: Little, Colin, 1939-.
Series: Biology of habitats.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: ix, 252 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0198504276; 9780198504276 :; 0198504268 (pbk.).Subject(s): Coastal ecology | Seashore biology | Estuarine biology | Estuarine ecologyDDC classification: 577.69
Contents:
Ch. 1. Introduction: organisms, sediments, and water movements -- Ch. 2. The world of particles: a variety of habitats -- Ch. 3. The coarse extreme: life on sandy beaches -- Ch. 4. A fine option: life on mudflats and in seagrass beds -- Ch. 5. Salt marshes and mangrove swamps -- Ch. 6. Life at the bottom: sublittoral sediments and community structure -- Ch. 7. Estuarine habitats and coastal lagoons -- Ch. 8. The estuarine benthos and its distribution -- Ch. 9. Life in the estuarine water column -- Ch. 10. Estuarine ecosystems -- Ch. 11. Uses and abuses: human impacts and counter-measures --Further reading -- References -- Glossary -- Appendix: A brief classification of selected organisms -- Index.
Summary: Designed to be accessible to readers at all levels, this text discusses organisms and their adaptations on sandy shores, mudflats, seagrass beds, salt marshes, mangrove swamps and below the tide marks. It emphasises the special nature of estuaries.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 577.69 LIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0050071
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-236) and index.

Ch. 1. Introduction: organisms, sediments, and water movements -- Ch. 2. The world of particles: a variety of habitats -- Ch. 3. The coarse extreme: life on sandy beaches -- Ch. 4. A fine option: life on mudflats and in seagrass beds -- Ch. 5. Salt marshes and mangrove swamps -- Ch. 6. Life at the bottom: sublittoral sediments and community structure -- Ch. 7. Estuarine habitats and coastal lagoons -- Ch. 8. The estuarine benthos and its distribution -- Ch. 9. Life in the estuarine water column -- Ch. 10. Estuarine ecosystems -- Ch. 11. Uses and abuses: human impacts and counter-measures --Further reading -- References -- Glossary -- Appendix: A brief classification of selected organisms -- Index.

Designed to be accessible to readers at all levels, this text discusses organisms and their adaptations on sandy shores, mudflats, seagrass beds, salt marshes, mangrove swamps and below the tide marks. It emphasises the special nature of estuaries.

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