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100	1		_aLittle, Colin, _d1939- _97746 _eAuthor.
245	1	4	_aThe biology of soft shores and estuaries / _cColin Little.
264		1	_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2000.
300			_aix, 252 pages. : _billustrations, maps; _c24 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
440		0	_aBiology of habitats _97747
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [222]-236) and index.
505	0		_a Ch. 1. Introduction: organisms, sediments, and water movements -- Ch. 2. The world of particles: a variety of habitats -- Ch. 3. The coarse extreme: life on sandy beaches -- Ch. 4. A fine option: life on mudflats and in seagrass beds -- Ch. 5. Salt marshes and mangrove swamps -- Ch. 6. Life at the bottom: sublittoral sediments and community structure -- Ch. 7. Estuarine habitats and coastal lagoons -- Ch. 8. The estuarine benthos and its distribution -- Ch. 9. Life in the estuarine water column -- Ch. 10. Estuarine ecosystems -- Ch. 11. Uses and abuses: human impacts and counter-measures --Further reading -- References -- Glossary -- Appendix: A brief classification of selected organisms -- Index.
520			_aThis book focuses on marine and estuarine soft sediments as complex and essential habitats for an astonishing variety of animals and plants whose lifestyles are intimately bound up with sediment structure. It discusses sediments as habitats first, then takes in turn the ecosystems found on sandy shores, mudflats and seagrass beds, salt marshes and mangrove swamps, and life below the tidemarks. Adaptations of the organisms are fully described, and each chapter ends with a section on techniques. Later chapters discuss estuarine and lagoonal habitats, both of which contain primarily soft sediments, but add further comlicating characteristics to those found in the sea. A discussion of estuarine food webs emphasizes the ways in which organisms interact. The book ends with a discussion of the ways in which marine and estuarine soft sediments have been abused by man, and some of the opportunities that have been taken to counteract these abuses.
650		0	_aCoastal ecology.
650		0	_aSeashore biology.
650		0	_aEstuarine biology.
650		0	_aEstuarine ecology.
650		4	_aCoastal ecology.
650		4	_aEstuarine biology.
650		4	_aEstuarine ecology.
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0611/00709178-d.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0611/00709178-t.html
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