The Ecology of Sandy Shores

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Elsevier, 27 jul 2010 - 392 pagina's
The Ecology of Sandy Shores provides the students and researchers with a one-volume resource for understanding the conservation and management of the sandy shore ecosystem. Covering all beach types, and addressing issues from the behavioral and physiological adaptations of the biota to exploring the effects of pollution and the impact of man's activities, this book should become the standard reference for those interested in Sandy Shore study, management and preservation.
  • More than 25% expanded from the previous edition
  • Three entirely new chapters: Energetics and Nutrient Cycling, Turtles and Terrestrial Vertebrates, and Benthic Macrofauna Populations
  • New sections on the interstitial environment, seagrasses, human impacts and coastal zone management
  • Examples drawn from virtually all parts of the world, considering all beach types from the most exposed to the most sheltered
 

Inhoudsopgave

The Interstitial Environment
31
Beach and Surfzone Flora
55
Sandybeach Invertebrates
65
Adaptations to Sandybeach Life
91
Benthic Macrofauna Communities
125
Benthic Macrofauna Populations
163
Interstitial Ecology
181
Surfzone Fauna
197
Energetics and Nutrient Cycling
223
Coastal Dune Ecosystems and DuneBeach Interactions
251
Human Impacts
273
Coastal Zone Management
303
Glossary
325
References
329
Appendices
353
Index
357

Turtles and Terrestrial Vertebrates
215

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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Populaire passages

Pagina 16 - Tides, about this time, will rise higher, and fall lower, than they do when the Sun and Moon are at right angles to each other.
Pagina 349 - Wade, BA (1967). Studies on the biology of the West Indian beach clam, Donax denticulatus Linne.
Pagina 332 - Direct measurement of pore-size distribution on artificial and natural deposits and prediction of pore space accessible to interstitial organisms: DJ Crisp and R.
Pagina 332 - WR 1955. Ecology of the bean clam Donax gouldi on the coast of southern California.
Pagina 17 - The dotted arrows show the direction the trade winds would take if the earth's rotation did not deflect them to the left in the southern hemisphere and to the right in the northern.
Pagina 335 - F. (1983). An optical directional factor in the sky might improve the direction finding of sandhoppers on the seashore. Monit. Zool. Ital. (NS) 17:313-317.
Pagina 334 - Growth, population dynamics, a mass mortality and arrangement of white sand mussels, Donax serra Roding, on beaches in the south-western Cape Province.

Over de auteur (2010)

Dr McLachlan has had a long and established career in beach ecology. He has worked around the world and has headed up multiple departments and research institutions including: the Director for the Institute for Coastal Research, Chair of the Dept. of Zoology and has held a number of Dean positions at Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. He has over 90 publications to date.

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