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Life in the Chesapeake Bay.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
The Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Contents""; ""List of Maps""; ""Preface""; ""A Perspective: Past, Present, and Future""; ""1. ECOLOGY OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY""; ""How Salty Is the Water?""; ""Typical Habitats of the Bay and Its Tributaries""; ""Classification of Animals and Plants""; ""2. SAND BEACHES""; ""Plants along the Upper Beach""; ""Dwellers on the Beach""; ""Signs of Life""; ""Birds of the Beach""; ""Ancient Relics of the Sea""; ""Shell Guide""; ""3. INTERTIDAL FLATS""; ""Plant Life on the Flats""; ""Roamers over the Flats""; ""The World beneath the Intertidal Muds""; ""Waders and Pickers on the Flats""
- ""4. PIERS, ROCKS, AND JETTIES""""Barnacles""; ""Bugs of the Pilings""; ""Worms on the Pilings""; ""Sea Squirts and the Like""; ""Mussels""; ""Sponges""; ""Sea Anemones""; ""Hydroids�Feathery Animals""; ""Whip Coral""; ""Skeleton Shrimps""; ""Bryozoans""; ""Termites of the Sea""; ""Aerial Gleaners""; ""5. SHALLOW WATERS""; ""Fishes""; ""Plankton Soup""; ""Insects of the Shallows""; ""Crustaceans of the Shallows""; ""Clams of the Shallows""; ""Snails of Fresher Waters""; ""Arks of the Lower Bay""; ""Birds of the Shallows""; ""Turtles and Snakes""; ""6. SEAGRASS MEADOWS AND WEED BEDS""
- ""Underwater Plants""""Seagrass Meadows""; ""Weed Beds of the Upper Bay""; ""7. WETLANDS""; ""Tidal Freshwater Marshes""; ""Salt Marshes""; ""The Maritime Forest""; ""Forested Wetlands""; ""Insects of the Wetlands""; ""Birds of the Wetlands""; ""Mammals of the Marshes""; ""8. OYSTER BARS""; ""The Famous Oyster""; ""Life in, on, and among the Oysters""; ""Crabs and Other Crustaceans""; ""Mollusks of the Oyster Community""; ""Fishes""; ""9. DEEPER, OPEN WATERS""; ""Dwellers on the Bottom""; ""Dwellers in the Bottom""; ""Creatures of the Open Waters""; ""Fishes of the Open Waters""
- ""Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles of the Open Waters""""Birds of the Open Waters""; ""Glossary""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""W""; ""Z""; ""Species List and Distributions by Salinity Zones""; ""Birds�Species List and Seasonal Occurrence""; ""Selected References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""