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PERRY, BILL A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide to the Middle Atlantic Coast: Cape Hatteras to Cape Cod
Sierra Club Books, 1985. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Light shelf wear. "The newest addition to this series occupies a middle ground between general seashore books such as Philip Kopper's The Wild Edge ( LJ 10/1/79) and Nor man A. Meinkoth's The Audubon Soci ety Field Guide to North American Seashore Creatures ( LJ 2/15/82). Al though it would not replace a good field guide for identification, it is much more readable than a field guide and includes interesting case histories. It also more systematically covers shore organisms, including all the major groups and some that are frequently overlooked, such as the reptiles and microorganisms in the coast's natural areas: the barrier is lands, estuaries, salt marshes, and eel grass areas." -- Library Journal CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction; An Atlantic Coast Overview; Seashore Ecology - Biological Systems, Habitat and Niche, Carrying Capacity, Distribution, Plankton and Nekton, Life Cycles, Life in Transition; The Water Environment - Sea Water, Tides, The Gulf Stream; The Human Factor; Geomorphology of the Middle Atlantic Coast - The Atlantic Plain; Physiographic Features of the Middle Atlantic Coast Today - The Glaciated Coast, The Nonglaciated Coast, The Formation of Estuaries; The Dynamic Interface-Beaches, Waves, and Currents - Beaches, The Mechanics of Wave Motion and Bech Dynamics; Barrier Beaches - Theories of Barrier-Beach Formation, Dune Formation and Migration, Barrier-Beach Retreat, Man Versus the Barrier Beaches; The Ecology of Barrier Islands - The Physical Environment - Winds and Salt Spray, Storms, Precipitation, Hydrology, Topography; The Subtidal Zone of the Outer Beach - Plants of the Inshore Waters, Animals of the Inshore Waters; The Intertidal Zone of the Outer Beach,Life Between Tides; The Upper beach Zone - Life on the Upper Beach, Plants of the Upper each, Animals of the Uper Beach; The Dune-and Swale Zone - Life in the Dunes, Vegetation Patterns, Some Plants of the Primary Dune, Plants of the Interdune Swale, Fire Island's Dune-and-Swale Zone, Water-Seeking and Water-conserving Adaptations, Dune Migration and Plants, Animals of the Dune-and-Swae Zone, Dunes of the Mainland Shore; The Thicket Zone; Th maritime Forest - The Maritime Forest in Buxton Woods, The Sunken Forest of Fire Island, Succession in Maritime Forests, Anilams of the Maritime Forest; Three-Estuarine Communities - Estuaries, Sounds, and Lagoons; The Nature and Types of Estuaries - Hydrologic Classifications, Geomorphological Classifications, Estuaries Versus Lagoons; Estuarine Mud and Sand Flats - The Nature of Intertidal Flats, Plants of the Intertidal Flats, Food Chains of the Intertidal Flats, Benthic Epifauna of the Intertidal Flats, Mobile Epibenthos of the Intertidal Flats, Benthic Infauna of the Intertidal Flats; Animals of the Estuarine Waters - The Larger Zooplankton, Testuarine Chordates, The Role of Birds int he Estuarine Community; Salt Marsh Communities - Wetlands, Salt Marshes and Salt Flats, Origins of the Eastern Salt Marshes; Plants of the Salt Marsh - Cordgrass Communities, Associated Plants, Scrub-Shrub Wetland; Animals of the Salt Marsh - Life Among the Plant Roots, Invertebrates Living on and Among Marsh Plants, Salt Marsh Reptiles, Birds of the Salt Marsh, Salt Marsh Eatouts, Salt Marsh Mammals; The Eelgrass Community - Seagrasses; The Structure of Eelgrass Systems - Epiphytes, Grazers and Foragers, Benthic Epifauna, Mobile Epibenthos, Infauna, Free-swimming Fauna; How the Zostera Community Functions; General Biology of Zostera Marina - Habitat, Growth and Reproduction, Productivity, The Eelgrass Blight; Plants Associated with Zostera Marina - Other Flowering Plants, Non Flowering Plants; Consumer Ecology of the Eelgrass Community - Herbivorous and Planktivorous Invertebrates, Vertebrate Herbivores, Invertebrate Predators, Vertebrate Predators, Epibenthic Scaenbers, Detritivores; Coastal Access Areas, Endangered Species, Handle with Care; Bibliography; Index.
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