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The biology of rocky shores.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Biology of habitatsPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009Edition: 2nd ed. / Colin Little, Gray A. Williams, and Cynthia D. TrowbridgeDescription: xiii, 356 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780198564904 (hbk.)
  • 0198564902 (hbk.)
  • 0198564910 (pbk.)
  • 9780198564911 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 578.7699 22
LOC classification:
  • QH95.7 .L57 2009
Contents:
1. The shore environment -- 2. The diversity of shore organisms -- 3. Coping with life on the shore: adaptations of littoral organisms -- 4. Primary producers on the shore: the autotrophs -- 5. Utilizing autotrophic resources: the grazers -- 6. Suspension feeders: how to live on floating food -- 7. Eating flesh: the predators -- 8. Vertical distributions: 'zonation' and its causes -- 9. How organisms are gathered together: communities on the shore and the effects of wave exposure -- 10. The functioning of rocky shore communities -- 11. Human influences on rocky shores -- 12. Methods and experimental approaches.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 578.7699 LIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A379106B

Previous ed.: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-344) and index.

1. The shore environment -- 2. The diversity of shore organisms -- 3. Coping with life on the shore: adaptations of littoral organisms -- 4. Primary producers on the shore: the autotrophs -- 5. Utilizing autotrophic resources: the grazers -- 6. Suspension feeders: how to live on floating food -- 7. Eating flesh: the predators -- 8. Vertical distributions: 'zonation' and its causes -- 9. How organisms are gathered together: communities on the shore and the effects of wave exposure -- 10. The functioning of rocky shore communities -- 11. Human influences on rocky shores -- 12. Methods and experimental approaches.

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