Author: Jack Lasenby Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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In 1941 there are rumours that the Japanese may invade New Zealand. George's mother decides to send the family to their bach on the east coast of the Coromandel. The children decide that to survive they need to fend for themselves in the mangroves without the adults.
Author: J. C. Miller Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 0557437237 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 171
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Summer's Empire is the story of two brothers in their forties. The older one is a widower who lives a textbook routine life; the other is a popular fiction novelist and adventurer. The older brother, Rob, uses a childhood mishap as an excuse throughout most of his adult life to avoid straying from the comfort of familiarity. He uses that childhood mishap as a red herring to exempt himself from accepting change. Rick is the exact opposite. Adventure is his middle name, and he agonizes as he watches his brother grow old in his bubble. Summer's Empire is the tale of Rick's last valiant effort to open up his brother's eyes to the wide world around him and learn to enjoy and appreciate it. Follow the pair of them and watch Rob go through a very unlikely transformation and find new meaning to life.
Author: Anne McCrary Sullivan Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1683340957 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 233
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Everglades National Park’s mangrove ecosystem, extending over 230,000 acres of south Florida, is the most expansive in the western hemisphere and the largest continuous system of mangroves in the world. Most of this mangrove area is remote, accessible only by boat, complex and difficult to navigate. In The Everglades: Stories of Grit and Spirit from the Mangrove Wilderness we hear 21 stories from people who have ventured into this wilderness—for scientific work, artistic work, search-and-rescue missions, for personal renewal, or for the pure adventure of it. They tell stories of manatee rescue, shark encounters, storms and strandings, stories of environmental value and threat, wild beauty, personal enchantment and spirit. Together these stories reveal a world beyond the reach of most travelers. They also offer support and offer enticement to the intrepid few who may venture “out there” and return with stories of their own.
Author: Rezneat Milton Darnell Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1623493013 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 586
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For more than a decade, Rezneat Darnell worked on this major synthesis of what is known about the Gulf of Mexico. His goal: to bring a deeper understanding of “the American Sea” to students, scientists, managers, and educated citizens of the public at large. The American Sea builds on Darnell’s own research, the research of his graduate students, government agency research reports, data synthesis reports, and literature summaries to present a holistic view of the Gulf of Mexico. Although he is recognized as a pioneer in the study of continental shelf ecology, Darnell largely resisted specialization, remaining throughout his career “the writer and bringer together of things.” Here, he has written a book that embraces history, geology, geography, meteorology, chemistry, biology, ecology, and human relations in one comprehensive reference. Although it is thorough and meticulous in coverage, what comes through in these pages is the enormity, complexity, and mystery of the world that lies just beyond the Texas vacation beach, the Louisiana wetland, or the Mexico fishing village. In addition to photographs of deep water and other organisms that are included in the book, a number of illustrations have been added to provide excellent visual material, including historical and ocean floor maps and many works of original art depicting marine species, sea turtles, fish, and crustaceans.
Author: Aaron J. Adams Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: 9780811731058 Category : Marine fishes Languages : en Pages : 244
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Marine researcher Aaron Adams shares his knowledge about sea grass, mangroves, salt marshes, oyster bars, shorelines, beaches, sand flats, and coral reefs from the Caribbean to the Carolinas, the Gulf of Mexico to the Florida coast, to give you what you need to know to fish for tropical, subtropical, and warm-water species. Features: Descriptions of saltwater habitats -- mangroves, salt marshes, oyster bars, and beaches; Behaviour, life cycles, and fishing tips for 25 marine gamefish and their prey; Red drum, spotted seatrout, permit, bonefish, snook, tarpon, barracuda, snapper, ladyfish, weakfish, bluefish, striped bass, cobia, cero mackerel, Spanish mackerel, and jacks.
Author: Michael J. Kennish Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1420038486 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 896
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As a practicing professional in the field of marine science you need easily accessible, accurate and up-to-date information at your fingertips. Practical Handbook of Marine Science, Third Edition provides a comprehensive reference containing the critical information necessary to meet the multidisciplinary research needs of all marine scientists, re
Author: David N. Sen Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 940098037X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 273
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The ecology of halophytes has a wide scope of interest, appealing to people of many disciplines. It covers widely different fields such as climatology, soil science, phytogeography, adaptive biology and agriculture. Ecologists study these specialized plants in relation to estuarine ecosystems, biology of dominant genera, germination ecology, water relations, salt secretion, and senescence. The present volume is divided into three parts and attempts to elucidate new aspects of the problems faced by this special group of plants. It tries to give the reader an overall view of saline environments and the ecology of plants found therein. In the first chapter of part one Zahran presents the halophytic vegetation of Egypt, which includes the inland and the littoral (Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea) salt marshes. The plants he describes have been classified as succulents, excretives and cumulatives, according to their adaptability to saline soils and according to their different life-forms. The second chapter throws light on the estuarine ecosystem ofIndia. The estuaries are described by Joshi, and Bhosale as being rich in diversity of mangrove species. Making varied use of estuarine ecosystems is not only possible, but also essential because they are the meeting point between terrestrial and marine life.
Author: Jack Lasenby
Author: J. C. Miller
Author: Unesco/SCOR Working Group 60 on Mangrove Ecology
Author: Anne McCrary Sullivan
Author: Rezneat Milton Darnell
Author: Aaron J. Adams
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
Author: Michael J. Kennish
Author: David N. Sen
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