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Title

A Sierra Club naturalist's guide to the North Atlantic coast : Cape Cod to Newfoundland / by Michael and Deborah Berrill ; ill. by Rob Tuckerman.

Author

Berrill, Michael

Publication

San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, c1981.

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Additional Authors

• Berrill, Deborah, 1948-
• Sierra Club

Description

ix, 464 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 21 cm.

Alternative Title

North Atlantic coast.

Subject

• Coastal ecology > Atlantic Coast (Canada)
• Coastal ecology > New England
• Natural history > Atlantic Coast (Canada)
• Natural history > New England

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 440-446.

Contents

• The American Atlantic boreal region -- The Character of the coast -- The Coastline, Cape Cod to Newfoundland -- Geology of the boreal coastal region -- Climate: continental and maritime influences -- Oceanography -- The Boreal organisms -- The Marine rocky intertidal -- The Impenetrable substrate -- The Spray zone -- The Black zone -- The Barnacle zone -- The Brown algae zone -- The Red algae or Irish moss zone -- The Kelp zone -- Tide pools -- Underneath rocks -- Beaches and sand dunes -- Boreal beaches -- Stresses of living on a beach -- The Organisms on a beach -- Sand dunes -- Estuaries -- The Boreal estuaries -- Salt marshes -- Mud flats -- Soft subtidal substrates -- Rocky substrates -- Estuarine fish -- Estuarine birds and mammals.
• The Shallow marine subtidal -- Boreal subtidal marine habitats -- The Kelp zone: solid substrates -- Soft subtidal substrates -- Predators on mixed substrates -- Planktonic and pelagic animals -- Islands and ledges: seabirds and seals -- Sanctuaries for breeding -- Seabirds -- Seals -- Deeper and offshore water -- The Immense habitat -- The Pelagic realm -- The Demersal realm -- Appendices -- Classification of marine plants and animals.

ISBN

• 0871562421 :
• 087156243X (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^80023086^

OCLC

6815895

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library