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Marine Biodiversity
Springer 2007; US$ 189.99Presents selected contributions given to the 38th European Marine Biology Symposium, held in Aveiro, Portugal, in September 2003. This volume is organised according to the four subthemes of the symposium and to issues commonly perceived as relevant by scientists concerned with the study. more...
Ecology of Baltic Coastal Waters
Springer 2008; US$ 179.99Presents a comprehensive overview that covers the ecological diversity of Baltic coastal ecosystems. This title provides an introduction to the Baltic Sea as an ecosystem that is followed by detailed descriptions of the characteristics of coastal ecosystems. more...
Making Fisheries Management Work
Springer 2008; US$ 149.99The state of the Northeast Atlantic fisheries in recent years has highlighted implementation as the Achilles heel of modern fisheries management: discards, unreported or misreported landings are in many cases recognised to effectively subvert sound conservation goals. Implementation is thus a key factor in avoiding fisheries crises. While social science... more...
Health of Antarctic Wildlife
Springer 2009; US$ 249.99Offers an assessment of the health of Antarctica's and seals. It covers chapters including 'Wildlife Disease' that consists of reviews, case studies and health assessments; and "External Factors" that covers the environmental, administrative and legal aspects. It is suitable for veterinary and biological scientists. more...
Shell Games
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99Shell Games is a cops-and-robbers tale set in a double-crossing world where smugglers fight turf wars over some of the world's strangest marine creatures. Puget Sound sits south of the border between the U.S. and Canada and is home to the magnificent geoduck (pronounced "gooey duck"), the world's largest burrowing clam. Comically proportioned... more...
Coral Reefs
Springer 2010; US$ 179.99This book covers in one volume materials scattered in hundreds of research articles, in most cases focusing on specialized aspects of coral biology. In addition to the latest developments in coral evolution and physiology, it presents chapters devoted to novel frontiers in coral reef research. These include the molecular biology of corals and their... more...
The Founding Fish
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003; US$ 17.99John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George... more...
Shucked
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 26.99Bill Buford?s Heat meets Phoebe Damrosch?s Service Included in this unique blend of personal narrative, food miscellany, and history In March of 2009, Erin Byers Murray ditched her pampered city girl lifestyle and convinced the rowdy and mostly male crew at Island Creek Oysters in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to let a completely unprepared,... more...
Seashore
Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2008; Not AvailableDiscover over 320 species of animals and plants found on the seashores and coastal regions of Europe From the Mediterranean's rocky coasts to the North Sea's salt marshes, spot common animal and plant species with this pocket-sized guide. In-situ photographs and no nonsense notes will help you identify them in the field quickly and accurately. Maps... more...
Ecology and Conservation of the Sirenia
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 52.00A synthesis of the ecological and related knowledge pertinent to understanding the biology and conservation of dugongs and manatees. more...









