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Advances In Marine Biology
Elsevier Science 1970; US$ 196.00ADVANCES IN MARINE BIOLOGY VOL. 8 APL more...
Advances In Marine Biology
Elsevier Science 1971; US$ 196.00ADVANCES IN MARINE BIOLOGY VOL. 9 APL more...
Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems
Wiley 2009; US$ 124.95The new edition of this widely respected text provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the effects of biological–physical interactions in the oceans from the microscopic to the global scale. considers the influence of physical forcing on biological processes in a wide range of marine habitats including coastal estuaries, shelf-break... more...
Renaissance Man of Cannery Row
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 27.50This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century. Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic literary characters Doc in Cannery Row , Slim in... more...
Quaternary Coral Reef Systems
Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 142.95This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent (1.8 million to a few millennia-old) coral reefs gained since the eighties, and introduces geologists, oceanographers and environmentalists to sedimentological and paleoecological studies of an ecosystem encompassing some of the world's richest biodiversity. Scleractinian reefs first... more...
Advances In Marine Biology
Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 196.00Advances in Marine Biology was first published in 1963. Now edited by A.J. Southward (Marine Biological Association, UK), P.A. Tyler (Southampton Oceanography Association, UK), C.M. Young (Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, USA) and L.A. Fuiman (University of Texas, USA), the serial publishes in-depth and up-to-date reviews on a wide range... more...
Dolphin Chronicles
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 19.00For everyone fascinated with the possibilities of human-animal communications, scientist Carol Howard provides an intimate, moving account of one woman's attempt to unravel the mysteries of the dolphin--one of the sea's most fascinating and enigmatic creatures. more...
An Introduction to Phycology
Wiley 2009; US$ 124.95This text presents the subject using a systems approach and is therefore a departure from the more commonly employed phyletic approach. Topics covered include classification, cellular and sub-cellular organization, morphology and growth, reproduction and life cycles, evolution, phylogeny, physiology, ecology and the relationship between algae and man.... more...
Green Porno
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 20.99Deep down in the ocean, strange things happen, acts of love that are unfamiliar to the human eye: Anchovies mate in large orgies; shrimp strip down to get in the mood; starfish can do it two different ways; whales fight to make love. Inspired by the wonderfully odd and humorous short films created by Isabella Rossellini and released on DVD for... more...
Marine Macroecology
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 32.00Pioneered in the late 1980s, the concept of macroecology—a framework for studying ecological communities with a focus on patterns and processes—revolutionized the field. Although this approach has been applied mainly to terrestrial ecosystems, there is increasing interest in quantifying macroecological patterns in the sea and understanding... more...









