This book focuses on marine and estuarine soft sediments as complex and essential habitats for an astonishing variety of animals and plants whose lifestyles are intimately bound up with sediment structure. It discusses sediments as habitats first, then takes in turn the ecosystems found on sandy shores, mudflats and segrass beds, salt marshes and mangrove swamps, and life below the tidemarks. Adaptations of the organisms are fully described, and each chapter ends with a section on techniques. Later chapters discuss estuarine and lagoonal habitats, both of whoch contain primarily soft sediments, but add further complicating characteristics to those found in the sea. A discussion of estuarine food webs emphasizes the ways in which organisms interact. The book ends with a discussion of the ways in which marine and estuarine soft sediments have been abused by man, and some of the opportunities that have been taken to counteract these abuses.
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Dr Colin Little is a series editor of the Biology of Habitats series and author of the first volume in the 4eries, The biology of rocky shores
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During winter, the intertidal mudflats of the Chesapeake Bay, a large estuarine system on the east coast of North America, are crowded with wading birds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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During winter, the intertidal mudflats of the Chesapeake Bay, a large estuarine system on the east coast of North America, are crowded with wading birds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chesapeake Bay, South Africa, New Zealand, North America, Bay of Fundy, Wadden Sea, Baltic Sea, Brisbane River, Lough Hyne, San Francisco Bay, Sapelo Island, Lake St Lucia, North Sea, After Gray, After Little, Barataria Bay, Eel River, Gulf of Mexico, Southeast Asia New!
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- Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 43 by R. N. Gibson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Marine Biology by Amy Hill in Back Matter
- Life in the Chesapeake Bay by Alice Jane Lippson in Back Matter
- The Biology of Rocky Shores (Biology of Habitats) by Colin Little in Front Matter
- Great Britain (Discovering Cultures) by Sharon Gordon in Back Matter
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- The Biology of Freshwater Wetlands (Biology of Habitats) by Arnold G. van der Valk in Front Matter
- Marine Biodiversity: Patterns and Processes, Assessment, Threats, Management and Conservation (Developments in Hydrobiology) by H. Queiroga on page 112
- The Biology of the Deep Ocean (Biology of Habitats) by Peter Herring in Front Matter
- The Biology of the Deep Ocean (Biology of Habitats) by Peter Herring in Front Matter
- Restoration Ecology: The New Frontier by Jelte van Andel in Back Matter
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