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The Essential Guide to Beachcombing and the Strandline.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Wild Nature Press Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- What is the strandline?
- Where does the material come from?
- What can we learn from what is found?
- When is the best time for beachcombing?
- Why are there multiple strandlines?
- An extraordinary wildlife habitat
- Threats
- Kit list
- Collecting and recording your finds
- Keeping safe
- Beaches
- Sandy beaches
- Rocky or boulder beaches
- Shingle beaches
- Maerl beaches
- Seaweeds
- Brown seaweeds
- Green seaweeds
- Red seaweeds
- Eelgrass
- Shells
- Sandy shore
- Bivalves
- Gastropods
- Rocky shore
- Gastropods
- Bivalves
- Eggcases and eggs
- Mermaid's purses
- Shark eggcases
- Skate and ray eggcases
- Eggs
- Invertebrates and their remains
- Cuttlefish and squid
- Crab moults
- Other crustacean moults
- Carcasses, skulls and bones
- Seabirds and their remains
- Live strandings of cetaceans and turtles
- Dead strandings of cetaceans and turtles
- Marine mammal skeletal remains
- Fish
- Ocean drifters
- Driftwood
- Sea beans
- Jellyfish
- Animals of the ocean's surface
- Goose barnacles and associated animals
- Exotic non-natives on litter
- Pebbles with a difference
- Marine and beach litter
- Fishing litter
- Shipping litter
- Land-sourced litter
- Sewage-related debris
- Strandline wildlife
- Invertebrates
- Birds
- Mammals and amphibians
- Strandline plants
- Glossary
- Photographic credits
- Further reading
- Index