Author: Marc B. YellinPublisher:
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Category : Kelp bed ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Ecological Benchmarks in the Santa Cruz County Kelp Forests Before the Re-establishment of Sea Otters
Author: Marc B. YellinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kelp bed ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Ecology of Giant Kelp Forests in California
Author: Michael S. FosterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Giant kelp
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Ecological Characterization of the Central and Northern California Coastal Region: pt.1. Habitats. pt.2. Community composition lists
Author: The Biology and Ecology of Giant Kelp Forests
Author: David R. SchielPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520278860
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. It is the foundation for one of the most species-rich, productive, and widely distributed ecological communities in the world. Schiel and FosterÕs scholarly review and synthesisÊtake the reader from DarwinÕs early observations to contemporary research, providing a historical perspective for the modern understanding of giant kelp evolution, biogeography, biology, and physiology. The authors furnish a comprehensive discussion of kelp species and forest ecology worldwide, with considerations of human uses and abuses, management and conservation, and the current and likely future impacts of global change. This volume promises to be the definitive treatise and reference on giant kelp and its forests for many years, and it will appeal to marine scientists and others who want a better appreciation and understanding of these wondrous forests of the sea.
Draft Environmental Impact Statement Prepared on the Proposed Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary
Author: National Ocean Survey. Office of Coastal Zone ManagementPublisher:
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Category : Channel Islands (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Final environmental impact statement prepared on the proposed Channel Islands marine sanctuary
Author: National Ocean Survey. Office of Coastal Zone ManagementPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Ecological Characterization of the Central and Northern California Coastal Region: pt.1. Regional characterization. pt.2. Species
Author: Final Environmental Impact Statement for Translocation of Southern Sea Otters: Technical support documents
Author: The Community Ecology of Sea Otters
Author: Glenn R. VanBlaricomPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642728456
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The impetus for this volume comes from two sources. The first is scientific: by virtue of a preference for certain large benthic invertebrates as food, sea otters have interesting and significant effects on the structure and dynamics of nearshore communities in the North Pacific. The second is political: be cause of the precarious status of the sea otter population in coastal California, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced, in June 1984, a proposal to establish a new population of sea otters at San Nicolas Island, off southern California. The proposal is based on the premise that risks of catastrophic losses of sea otters, due to large oil spills, are greatly reduced by distributing the population among two geographically separate locations. The federal laws of the U.S. require that USFWS publish an Environmental Impact Statement (ElS) regarding the proposed translocation of sea otters to San Nicolas Island. The EIS is intended to be an assessment of likely bio logical, social, and economic effects of the proposal. In final form, the EIS has an important role in the decision of federal management authority (in this case, the Secretary of the Interior of the U.S.) to accept or reject the proposal.
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