A Student's Guide to the Seashore [Paperback]

A unique, concise, beautifully-illustrated guide to both identification and biology of common and widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore.This unique, concise, beautifully-illustrated guide has been carefully designed for students, teachers and naturalists. User-friendly dichotomous keys lead to the identification of over 650 common and widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore. Each species has detailed notes on diagnostic features and biology. Now with 32 pages of colour.This unique, concise, beautifully-illustrated guide has been carefully designed for students, teachers and naturalists. User-friendly dichotomous keys lead to the identification of over 650 common and widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore. Each species has detailed notes on diagnostic features and biology. Now with 32 pages of colour.This unique, concise and beautifully illustrated guide allows students to identify over 650 of the common, widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore. User-friendly dichotomous keys are supported by details of diagnostic features and biology of each species. Now enhanced with 32 pages of colour, this much acclaimed guide is invaluable to students of marine biology at any level. Questions such as how does the species reproduce? What is its life-cycle? How does it feed? are answered in the notes accompanying each species to give a fascinating insight into the diversity and complexity of life on the shore. The text is supported by an extensive glossary of scientific terms and a comprehensive bibliography is included to aid further study. The third edition builds on the excellent reviews of earlier editions and will continue to appeal to a wide readership, including students, teachers and naturalists.Preface; Acknowledgements for illustrations; Introduction; Design and layout of the book; Illustrated guide to the plants and animals of the shore; Seaweeds; Lichens; Anthophyta; Porifera; Cnidaria; Ctenophora; Platyhelminthes; Nemertea; Priapula; Annelida; Ml%