Download or read book Caribbean Reef Life written by Mickey Charteris and published by . This book was released on 1969-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean Reef Life covers the full range of a coral reef's biodiversity. This expanded third edition is more than just an ID book; it aims to give divers a deeper understanding of these dynamic ecosystems and how different species, including our own, contribute to the reef as a whole.
Download or read book Reef Life written by Brandon Cole and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anyone fascinated by the underwater world will be riveted by the photos in this richly illustrated guide... Readers can lose themselves in the magnificent environment beneath the sea...." --Publishers Weekly on the first edition of Reef Life The lure of the life that inhabits the ocean's reefs and open waters is no secret to scuba enthusiasts and snorkelers who enjoy gazing upon this wonderful world through their dive masks. This practical and comprehensive guidebook for divers, naturalists and ocean lovers identifies the most commonly encountered animals and other organisms in the tropical marine environment and identifies them in more than 1,000 beautiful color photographs to provide a window into this magnificent world. This updated edition features new photos, 33 new species profiles and an extended chapter about the state of the ocean and reefs on our rapidly changing planet. Reef Life is a handy, portable and comprehensive reference in a time when understanding and appreciating the diversity of our tropical oceans is at a critical point. A gallery of over 425 ray-finned fish species, as well as elasmobranchs (sharks, rays and skates), invertebrates, marine reptiles and marine mammals, offers readers an extensive identification guide to the most commonly seen marine species, with detailed descriptions of size, habitat, range and behavior. The book also includes: A guide to tropical marine ecosystems; Surveys of global coral reef communities, from the Caribbean to the Red Sea; A discussion about factors threatening marine ecosystems today. This is an essential selection for marine science and travel/tourism collections, scuba divers and snorkelers, and retailers and libraries in oceanside locations.
Download or read book Guide to Marine Life written by Marty Snyderman and published by Aqua Quest Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A layman's guide to identifying and understanding the marine life while scuba diving.
Download or read book Reef Fish Behavior written by Ned DeLoach and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of what is presently known about the behavior and ecology of reef fishes in the thaters of Florida, the Caribbean, and the Bahamas.
Download or read book Marine Life of the Caribbean written by Alick Rowe Jones and published by Interlink Publishing Group. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book talks about providing the US with a national strategy that focusses on exploiting its advantage, as a strategic broker, in crafting agreements on the rules for technological competition and the principles for military integration while being mor
Download or read book Reef Creature Identification written by Paul Humann and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992, this guide has been significantly expanded in a new 3rd edition. The popular, user-friendly field guide, covering all major groups of marine invertebrates encountered by divers on coral reefs and adjacent habitats, has grown to include 900 species beautifully documented with more than 1200 underwater photographs -- nearly doubling the total in the previous editions. Les Wilk has joined Paul Humann and Ned DeLoach authoring the comprehensive new edition.
Download or read book Imperiled Reef written by Sandy Sheehy and published by University of Florida Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise, the second largest coral structure on the planet: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.
Download or read book Caribbean Reef Life written by Mickey Charteris (Underwater photographer) and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean Reef Life is an essential field guide to the coral reefs of The Bay Islands, Honduras, with over 1000 species identified and described. The book covers marine plants, sponges, corals, invertebrates and fishes. Full of interesting facts and hints on finding your favorite species. This updated 2nd edition contains new photos and species to keep up with recent changes in marine taxonomy.
Download or read book Reef Life written by and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening look at what really goes on in the lives of coral reef fishes and invertebrates. Unforgettable photographs illustrate marine biology in action for all aquarists and underwater naturalists.
Download or read book Pisces Guide to Caribbean Reef Ecology written by William S. Alevizon and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 1993 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's a delightful guide for anyone who loves the beauty and wonder of coral reefs and the marine life they support. Packed with color photos throughout, it simply and clearly describes the fascinating interplay - the ecology - of creatures, natural forces, and biological processes that make coral reefs so fascinating to behold. Focusing on coral reefs of the Caribbean, this enlightening and entertaining book goes beyond the who's and what's of these marvelous marine environments. It reveals the why's and how's of the complex roles, behaviors, and interrelationships of the creatures that inhabit coral reefs. To protect coral reefs, we must understand them. This handy guide clarifies the seemingly random chaos that characterizes coral reefs, and accurately portrays them as well-organized, highly interdependent ecosystems that require our care and attention. All who cherish the oceans' wonders will enjoy this illuminating look into the magical world of Caribbean Reef Ecology.
Download or read book Caribbean Reef Life written by Mickey Charteris and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean Reef Life covers the full range of a coral reef's biodiversity. This expanded fourth edition is more than just an ID book; it aims to give divers a deeper understanding of these dynamic ecosystems and how different species, including our own, contribute to the reef as a whole.
Download or read book The Ocean of Life written by Callum Roberts and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times) Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads readers on a fascinating tour of mankind’s relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life. We have always been fish eaters, from the dawn of civilization, but in the last twenty years we have transformed the oceans beyond recognition. Putting our exploitation of the seas into historical context, Roberts offers a devastating account of the impact of modern fishing techniques, pollution, and climate change, and reveals what it would take to steer the right course while there is still time. Like Four Fish and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, The Ocean of Life takes a long view to tell a story in which each one of us has a role to play.
Download or read book Caribbean Reef Plants written by Diane Scullion Littler and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Coral Reef Food Chain written by Donald Wojahn and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a Caribbean coral reef! As you snorkel just offshore, you see brilliant fish, waving sea anemones, diving turtles - maybe even a prowling barracuda! The coral reef is full of life - from coral polyps snagging plankton to a moray eel gobbling up a goby fish. Day and night on the coral reef, the hunt is on to find food - and to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, and plant to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the coral reef? Will you . . . Tail a tiger shark as it sniffs out its next victim? Check out a stingray crushing clams? Watch a feathery fan worm trap bits of leftovers? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure!
Download or read book Caribbean Reef Life written by Mickey Charteris and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean Reef Life is an essential field guide to the coral reefs of The Bay Islands, Honduras, with over 1000 species identified and described. The book covers marine plants, sponges, corals, invertebrates and fishes. Full of interesting facts and hints on finding your favorite species.
Download or read book Dangerous Sea Life of the West Atlantic Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico written by Edwin S. Iversen and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to avoid dangerous creatures and how to administer first aid just in case you don't.
Download or read book The Unnatural History of the Sea written by Callum Roberts and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity can make short work of the oceans’ creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller’s sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable beast had been harpooned into extinction. It’s a classic story, but a key fact is often omitted. Bering Island was the last redoubt of a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years before the explorers set sail. As Callum M. Roberts reveals in The Unnatural History of the Sea, the oceans’ bounty didn’t disappear overnight. While today’s fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but in the eleventh century in medieval Europe. Roberts explores this long and colorful history of commercial fishing, taking readers around the world and through the centuries to witness the transformation of the seas. Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by fifteenth century seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries, he shows, are simply the latest chapter in a long history of unfettered commercialization of the seas. The story does not end with an empty ocean. Instead, Roberts describes how we might restore the splendor and prosperity of the seas through smarter management of our resources and some simple restraint. From the coasts of Florida to New Zealand, marine reserves have fostered spectacular recovery of plants and animals to levels not seen in a century. They prove that history need not repeat itself: we can leave the oceans richer than we found them.
