Keywords:
Seashore ecology.
;
Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (370 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781472943156
Series Statement:
British Wildlife Collection
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5614127
DDC:
577.6990941
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. A fascination for the shore -- 2. Patterns and zones -- 3. Rock pools -- 4. Lichens: a primitive cooperative -- 5. Seaweeds: the banquet that never was -- 6. Stingers, squirts, sponges, mats and worms: the weird and the wonderful -- 7. Molluscs: the mantle of respectability -- 8. Echinoderms: animals with tube feet -- 9. Arthropods: animals with jointed limbs -- 10. Plankton: drifters of the shore -- 11. Attack from air and sea -- 12. Nature's giant compost heap -- 13. Challenges, threats and the future of rocky shores -- References and further reading -- Abbreviations -- Species names -- Illustration credits -- Index.
