The biology of rocky shores.
Material type: TextSeries: 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.)
- 578.7699 22
- QH95.7 .L57 2009
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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.
There are no comments on this title.