Photographic Guide to Sea and Shore Life of Britain and North-West Europe

By Ray Gibson, Alex Rogers, Benedict Hextall

Book Overview

This photographic guide to sea-shore animals and plants is aimed at those who wish to find and identify organisms encountered on the sea-shore or immediately offshore quickly and easily while promoting their conservation. Each species is illustrated by a photograph and, in most cases, accompanied by a line drawing that emphasises the critical features for identification and a map to show the distribution of the species in North-West Europe. The text itself deliberately focuses on features that complement the photographs and facilitate identification non-destructively - where, for example, burrowing worms can only be identified by digging them up and therefore killing them, only the cast, the part usually seen, is shown. Stress is laid on the importance of exploiting all available information for locating and identifying each species - if two species have identical appearance they are described separately and behavioural, geographical, or seasonal features that distinguish them are described in the text.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198507097
• ISBN13: 9780198507093
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.8"