Download or read book The Ecology Status and Conservation of Marine and Shoreline Birds on the West Coast of Vancouver Island written by Kees Vermeer and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of a symposium that reviewed what is currently known about the west coast of Vancouver Island, with particular emphasis on birds. Papers cover the physical and biological environment, including the physical oceanography of the west coast of Vancouver Island; the population and breeding ecology of marine and shoreline birds; the distribution of marine and shoreline birds at sea, including bird populations and their habitats offshore, in fjords, in estuaries and over eelgrass bed; and oil pollution and conservation of marine and shoreline birds, including the effects of oil from the NESTUCCA oil spill on marine birds, the effects of environmental disturbances, and conservation measures necessary to protect marine birds.

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Download or read book Marine Environmental Pollution Hydrocarbons written by Richard A. Geyer and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1980 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By nature. Oil ecology / Carl H. Oppenheimer -- Naturally occuring hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea / Richard A. Geyer, Charles P. Giammona -- Sources of biogenic methane in the Gulf of Mexico / Bernie B. Bernard -- Gaseous and volatile liquid hydrocarbons in the marine environment with emphasis on the Gulf of Mexico / Theodor C. Sauer Jr., William M. Sackett -- Petroleum residues in the marine environment / Lela M. Jeffrey -- Geographic distribution of petroleum hydrocarbons in surficial bottom sediments of the Gulf of Mexico / Lewis R. Brown, Melvin Light, C. Douglas Minchew -- Biota near natural marine hydrocarbon seeps in the western Gulf of Mexico / Charles P. Giammona -- Ecology of a submarine petroleum seep off the California coast / Robert B. Spies, Paul H. Davis, Daniel H. Stuermer -- Distribution of hydrocarbon-oxidizing bacteria on the Georgia shelf area and oil-degrading activities / Carl H. Oppenheimer, Susain Siegel, Larry Day, Catherine Duncan -- Envi ...

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