The Biology of Rocky Shores
TEXTBOOK
Series: BIOLOGY OF HABITATS SERIES
Colin Little, Gray A Williams and Cynthia D Trowbridge
356 pages, b/w illus, figs, maps.
Preface
1: The shore environment
2: The diversity of shore organisms
3: Coping with life on the shore: adaptations of littoral organisms
4: Primary producers on the shore: the autotrophs
5: Utilizing autotrophic resources: the grazers
6: Suspension feeders: how to live on floating food
7: Eating flesh: the predators
8: Vertical distributions: 'zonation' and its causes
9: How organisms are gathered together: communities on the shore and the effects of wave exposure
10: The functioning of rocky shore communities
11: Human influences on rocky shores
12: Methods and experimental approaches
Appendix: Name changes of ecologically important
1: The shore environment
2: The diversity of shore organisms
3: Coping with life on the shore: adaptations of littoral organisms
4: Primary producers on the shore: the autotrophs
5: Utilizing autotrophic resources: the grazers
6: Suspension feeders: how to live on floating food
7: Eating flesh: the predators
8: Vertical distributions: 'zonation' and its causes
9: How organisms are gathered together: communities on the shore and the effects of wave exposure
10: The functioning of rocky shore communities
11: Human influences on rocky shores
12: Methods and experimental approaches
Appendix: Name changes of ecologically important
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