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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Peter J. HaywardPublisher: Pelagic Publishing Imprint: Pelagic Publishing Volume: 35 Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781784273590ISBN 10: 1784273597 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 27 September 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsEditor’s preface Acknowledgements About the author About Naturalists’ Handbooks 1. Introduction 2. The pool environment 3. Rock-pool seaweeds 4. Rock-pool animals 5. Identification Key A Guide to major invertebrate animal groups Key B Sessile, modular animals Key C Sea spiders (Pycnogonida) Key D Isopods Key E Amphipods Key F Decapods Key G Shelled gastropods Key H Chitons Key I Bivalves Key J Polychaetes Key K Heterobranchia Key L Sea anemones Key M Echinoderms Key N Rock-pool fishes 6. Investigating rock pools 7. References and further reading IndexReviews...in many places we will come across rock pools full of wonderful wildlife, but can you ID them? This book will help you... ideal to get your children/grandchildren into searching the rock pools. -- John Miles, birdwatching.co.uk ...in many places we will come across rock pools full of wonderful wildlife, but can you ID them? This book will help you... ideal to get your children/grandchildren into searching the rock pools. -- John Miles, birdwatching.co.uk The illustrations are very well done and the information contained in the book show Peters in-depth knowledge of the species that occupy this amazing environment...Congratulations to Peter and Pelagic Publishing for producing a book that deserves to be used as the definitive guide to rock pools. -- Neil Garrick Maidment, British Naturalists' Association This excellent volume, the next in the series of Naturalists’ Handbooks, now under Pelagic Publishing, gives the physical, chemical and ecological features of rock pools (with data diagrams), and their dominant fauna and flora. It gives excellent keys and drawings as well as many photographs, all of a high quality as expected in all of Peter’s works. The book will be of immense help to high-school and university students and amateur naturalists on and after being on the shore. -- Mike Elliot, The Marine Biologist Author InformationPeter J. Hayward DSc., FLS began his career as Scientific Assistant at the Natural History Museum, London, and retired as Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology at Swansea University. Marine invertebrates have been his abiding interest, through many spring and autumn field courses, and in practical laboratory exercises. He has published several books on marine biological topics, along with numerous scientific papers, especially on the marine Bryozoa. He has served as co-editor of the Journal of Natural History and editor of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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