The biology of soft shores and estuaries /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Biology of habitats.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Publisher description |
Table of 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.