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This complete primer on San Francisco Bay is a multifaceted exploration of an extraordinary, and remarkably resilient, body of water. Bustling with oil tankers, laced with pollutants, and crowded with forty-six cities, the bay is still home to healthy eelgrass beds, young Dungeness crabs and sharks,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rubissow Okamoto, Ariel
Otros Autores: Wong, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Michelle)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Colección:California natural history guides ; 102.
Temas:
Estuarine ecology > California > San Francisco Bay.
Endangered ecosystems > California > San Francisco Bay.
Restoration ecology > California > San Francisco Bay.
Écologie des estuaires > Californie > San Francisco, Baie de.
Écosystèmes menacés > Californie > San Francisco, Baie de.
Réhabilitation (Écologie) > Californie > San Francisco, Baie de.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
NATURE > Ecology.
Endangered ecosystems
Estuarine ecology
Restoration ecology
Earth & Environmental Sciences.
Ecology.
Pacific Ocean > San Francisco Bay
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Taking the Plunge; Beneath the Surface: What Is an Estuary?; Visible and Invisible Life: Fish, Birds, and Other Wildlife; History of Human Changes: 1800s-1960s; The Environmental Backlash: 1960s-Present; Restoration Frontiers: The Watershed; Restoration Frontiers: The Bay; Climate Change and the Bay's Future; Coda; Glossary; Historical Timeline; References; Learning More, Helping Out: A Few Places to Start; Art Credits; Index.

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