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Oceanography & Marine Biology
P.G. Moore and R. Seed (editor), The Ecology of Rocky Coasts: Essays Presented to J.R. Lewis
A comprehensive treatment of modern rocky coast ecology worldwide, compiled in honor of the shore ecologist Jack Lewis, retired from Leeds University. “Each chapter is written by an international authority, forming all together a thorough description of established knowledge and current research.  Advances in littoral and sublittoral ecology are presented side-by-side for the first time.  Interactions between flora and fauna are stressed throughout, such as a detailed appreciation of algal faunas and an extensive treatment of grazing molluscs.  Other contributions develop themes central to all ecology, for example predation and optimal foraging, and life history strategies, issues whose original definitions were derived from studies of rocky coast organisms.”




List of Chapters and Contributors
I      J.R. Lewis and the ecology of rocky shores, by P.G. Moore and H.T. Powell
II     The zonation of seaweeds on rocky shores, by T.A. Norton
III    Ecological pattern in the epifaunal communities of coastal macroalgae, by R. Seed
IV   Meiofauna associated with rocky shore algae, by G.R.F. Hicks
V    Variation and persistence of rocky shore populations, by J.H. Connell
VI   Mussels and their rôle in structuring rocky shore communities, by T.H. Suchanek
VII  Limpets: their rôle in littoral and sublittoral community dynamics, by G.M. Branch
VIII Height on the shore as a factor influencing growth rate and reproduction of the top-shell Gibbula cineraria (L.), by I.W. Jardine
IX   The population biology of two species of Lacuna (chink-shells) at Robin Hood’s Bay, by J. Grahame
X    The ecology of the periwinkle, Littorina neglecta Bean, by J.D. Fish and Lynne Sharp
XI   Causes and patterns of mortality in Littorina ‘rudis’ (Maton) in relation to intraspecific variation: a review, by R.J. Faller-Fritsch and R.H. Emson
XII  The biology of the limpet Patella vulgata L. in the British Isles: spawning time as a factor determining recruitment success, by Rosemary S. Bowman
XIII  Local and regional variation in settlement and survival in the littoral barnacle Semiabalanus balanoides (L): patterns and consequences, by D.S. Wethey
XIV Reproductive strategies of North-temperate rocky shore invertebrates, by C.D. Todd
XV   Life history patterns in rock pool animals, by R.H. Emson
XVI  Rocky shore communities: catalysts to understanding predation, by R.N. Hughes
XVII The ecological significance and control of shell variability in dogwhelks from temperate rocky shores, by J.A. Kitching
XVIII Birds as predators on rocky shores, by C. J. Feare and R.W. Summers
XIX   The use of Patella vulgata L. in rocky shore surveillance, by A.M. Jones and J.M. Baxter
XX    Levels of heterogeneity and the amphipod fauna of kelp holdfasts, by P.G. Moore
XXI   Aspects of the ecology of rocky sublittoral areas, by K. Hiscock
XXII  Detection of long-term trends in rocky sublittoral communities: representativeness of fixed sites, by T. Lundälv
XXIII Community ecology of vertical rock walls in the Gulf of Maine, USA: small-scale processes and alternative community states, by K.P. Sebens
XXIV Physical factors and biological interactions: the necessity and nature of ecological experiments, by A.J. Underwood

The work concludes with a 60 page list of references.

The two copies we have available are bargain-priced remainders and are as new, but with light bumping at the corners.

Columbia University Press, 1986.  467 pages, illus., about 7½ x 10 inches, hardcover.  New, remaindered.
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