Author: Edward Perry ChurchillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue crab
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Life History of the Blue Crab
Author: Edward Perry ChurchillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue crab
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The Blue Crab
Author: Victor S. KennedyPublisher: Maryland Sea Grant College University of Maryland
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Alabama Landings
Author: United States. National Marine Fisheries ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Fishery Bulletin
Author: Synopsis of Biological Data on the Blue Crab, Callinectes Sapidus Rathbun
Author: Mark R. MillikinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue crab
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Human Impacts on Salt Marshes
Author: Brian R. SillimanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520258921
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"Human Impacts on Salt Marshes provides an excellent global synthesis of an important, underappreciated environmental problem and suggests solutions to the diverse threats affecting salt marshes."—Peter B. Moyle, University of California, Davis
Malacological Review
Author: Estuaries
Author: Stephen J. JordanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781619420830
Category : Estuaries
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Estuaries are minor geographical features at the global scale, but have major importance for society and the world's economies. This book, with case studies from three continents, offers a perspective on estuaries as ecosystems that are intimately linked to society in both positive and negative ways. As focal points of trade, industry, energy production, fisheries, and tourism, estuaries provide a bounty of services to society; they are also centres of human population and vulnerable to the accompanying environmental stresses. This book covers a wide range of topics, from the definition and classification of estuaries, to chemical and physical properties, ecological processes, habitat values, fisheries, and tools for improving management and policy.
Biology and Conservation of Horseshoe Crabs
Author: John T. TanacrediPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387899596
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Horseshoe crabs, those mysterious ancient mariners, lured me into the sea as a child along the beaches of New Jersey. Drawn to their shiny domed shells and spiked tails, I could not resist picking them up, turning them over and watching the wondrous mechanical movement of their glistening legs, articulating with one another as smoothly as the inner working of a clock. What was it like to be a horseshoe crab, I wondered? What did they eat? Did they always move around together? Why were some so large and others much smaller? How old were they, anyway? What must it feel like to live underwater? What else was out there, down there, in the cool, green depths that gave rise to such intriguing creatures? The only way to find out, I reasoned, would be to go into the ocean and see for myself, and so I did, and more than 60 years later, I still do.
Habitats and Biota of the Gulf of Mexico: Before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Author: C. Herb WardPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493934473
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 917
Book Description
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. The Gulf of Mexico is an open and dynamic marine ecosystem rich in natural resources but heavily impacted by human activities, including agricultural, industrial, commercial and coastal development. The Gulf of Mexico has been continuously exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons for millions of years from natural oil and gas seeps on the sea floor, and more recently from oil drilling and production activities located in the water near and far from shore. Major accidental oil spills in the Gulf are infrequent; two of the most significant include the Ixtoc I blowout in the Bay of Campeche in 1979 and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010. Unfortunately, baseline assessments of the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before these spills either were not available, or the data had not been systematically compiled in a way that would help scientists assess the potential short-term and long-term effects of such events. This 2-volume series compiles and summarizes thousands of data sets showing the status of habitats and biota in the Gulf of Mexico before the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Volume 1 covers: water and sediment quality and contaminants in the Gulf; natural oil and gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico; coastal habitats, including flora and fauna and coastal geology; offshore benthos and plankton, with an analysis of current knowledge on energy capture and energy flows in the Gulf; and shellfish and finfish resources that provide the basis for commercial and recreational fisheries.