People from around the world are introduced to colorful coral reefs, shipwrecks and unique marine environments in the Florida Keys, which remains a popular vacation spot for the ecologically minded. Eco-Touring The Florida Keys is the guide for quick, reliable identification of the most common plants, marine animals and overall descriptions of the Florida ecosystems and their inner workings. This exciting new book has become a valuable tool for people to use to identify an unusual marine animal, a plant they saw on the beach, or a seaweed they were curious about. The descriptions are brief and concise, and are accompanied by photographs to aid in identification. It is a useful and very informative guide, packed with helpful information for boaters, vacationers, divers, snorkelers, and Florida natives as well. So put on your sunscreen, and go Eco-Touring The Florida Keys, but be sure to take along this exciting and informative identification guide.
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"A wonderful guide for quick identification and descriptions of the Florida ecosystems." -- Dive Training Magazine, 2006
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Matt Landau earned his B.S. from St. John's University in 1972, and his Ph.D. in Oceanography in 1983 from the Florida Institute of Technology. He has worked as a marine biologist in New York, Florida, Hawaii, Connecticut, and is currently the chairman of the Marine Science Department at the Richard State College of New Jersey. He has published over 60 scientific papers as well as two other marine biology books. A certified diver for about 25 years, his greatest pleasure is taking first time visitors to coral reefs and other tropical environments. Matt is married to another marine biologist, Brenda, and they live with their two children, Rose and Isaac.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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A great guidebook!,
This review is from: Eco-Touring the Florida Keys (Spiral-bound)
We just returned from another visit to the Keys and we took along this new great guidebook. This book was really helpful for finding some excellent dive sites and also for things to do on land. I recommend this book to tourist visiting the keys and to the natives as well, they may learn something new too!
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A Field Guide for Everyone,
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Eco-Touring the Florida Keys is a very informative and user friendly field guide. Not only is the reader given a history of the Keys, recommended dive shops, dive sites but also a list of plant and fish species they are expected to encounter both on land and underwater. This book is a great field guide for tourists or even the advanced diver looking for help identifying a new fish he has encountered. Having spent numerous vacations in the keys, I can honestly say Eco-Touring the Florida Keys has left me feeling more like an expert in Marine Biology then some of my college courses. This book will permanently accompany me on all of my future dives both in the Keys and in South Florida
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More Biology Than Touring,
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This book is more of a biology text for the Florida Keys than a touring guide. And as such it's wonderful, with lengthly and very scientific descriptions of plants, grasses, invertebrates, fish, and turtles. Puffers, we learn, are of the Tetraodontidae family of fish, of which there are 10 genera and about 130 species. Descriptions of the common ones are very detailed. This book is clearly for the serious chronicler of Keys flora and fauna.
There is a good list of dive sites from Key Largo to Key West. The color plates at the end of the book are somewhat helpful, the black and white photos in the rest of the book less so, being black and white. This richly informative book best serves the academic, guides, and other serious students of the minutia of life in the Keyes. Eco-tourists might find Bill Keogh's Paddling Guide or Burnham's Paddling Atlas more useful. Marsh Muirhead, author of "Key West Explained - a guide for the traveler"
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There are true reefs only on the Atlantic side of the Keys, not on the Gulf side. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mooring balls, brown chromis, ocean triggerfish, other marine environments, terminal males, sea rods, pillar coral, hardwood hammocks, southern stingray, sea plumes, patch reefs, upper keys, soft corals, coral rubble, basket stars, outer reefs, hard corals, native shrub, caudal peduncle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Florida Keys, Key West, Key Largo, South America, United States, Hawk Channel, West Indies, Big Pine Key, Molasses Reef, Conch Reef, Looe Key, Overseas Highway, Rock Key, Sand Key, Cheeca Rocks, Elbow Reef, Grecian Rocks, North America, Ponce de Leon, Vaca Key, White Bank Dry Rocks, Cannon Patch, Conch Republic, Crocker Reef, Florida City New!
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There are true reefs only on the Atlantic side of the Keys, not on the Gulf side. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
mooring balls, brown chromis, ocean triggerfish, other marine environments, terminal males, sea rods, pillar coral, hardwood hammocks, southern stingray, sea plumes, patch reefs, upper keys, soft corals, coral rubble, basket stars, outer reefs, hard corals, native shrub, caudal peduncle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Florida Keys, Key West, Key Largo, South America, United States, Hawk Channel, West Indies, Big Pine Key, Molasses Reef, Conch Reef, Looe Key, Overseas Highway, Rock Key, Sand Key, Cheeca Rocks, Elbow Reef, Grecian Rocks, North America, Ponce de Leon, Vaca Key, White Bank Dry Rocks, Cannon Patch, Conch Republic, Crocker Reef, Florida City New!
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- Fishes of the World by Joseph S. Nelson on page 121, and Index
- Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology (5th Edition) by Peter B. Moyle in Index
- Plants Poisonous to People in Florida by Julia Frances Morton in Index
- Seashore Plants of South Florida and the Caribbean: A Guide to Identification and Propagation of Xeriscape Plants by David W Nellis in Index
- Poisonous, Venomous, and Electric Marine Organisms of the Atlantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean by Matthew Landau in Index
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