John Archer-Thomson, Julian Cremona

Rocky Shores

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible and engaging account of the natural history of rocky and boulder-strewn shores around Britain's coastline.

Produktdetails

• British Wildlife Collection
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 250mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1176g
• ISBN-13: 9781472943132
• ISBN-10: 1472943139
• Artikelnr.: 52714695

Autorenporträt

John Archer-Thomson and Julian Cremona have spent their working lives in environmental education and conservation. They are a former deputy head and head respectively of the Field Studies Council's Dale Fort Field Centre in Pembrokeshire. John is now a freelance coastal ecologist, photographer, writer and tutor, while Julian is the author of several books on exploration, nature and photography.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 A fascination for the shore 2 Patterns and zones 3 Rock pools 4
Lichens: a primitive cooperative 5 Seaweeds: the banquet that never was 6
Stingers, squirts, sponges, mats and worms: the weird and the wonderful 7
Molluscs: the mantle of respectability 8 Echinoderms: animals with tube
feet 9 Arthropods: animals with jointed limbs 10 Plankton: drifters of the
shore 11 Attack from air and sea 12 Nature's giant compost heap 13
Challenges, threats and the future of rocky shores References and further
reading Abbreviations Species names Illustration credits Index