The Biology of Soft Shores and Estuaries

• Attractive line illustrations
• Includes sections on techniques and experiments at chapter ends
• Part of Biology of Habitats Series

Readership: Biology or Marine biology students; researchers new to the habitats; amateur naturalists

Colin Little, Honorary Research Associate, University of Bristol

"...refreshing...richly illustrated...very useful for teachers and students at secondary schools as well as at universities, but also for everybody involved in marine science to get a wider scope on the subject." - G. Van der Velde Crustaceana

1: Introduction: organisms, sediments, and water movements
2: The world of particles: a variety of habitats
3: The coarse extreme: life on sandy beaches
4: A fine option: life on mudflats and in seagrass beds
5: Salt marshes and mangrove swamps
6: Life at the bottom: sublittoral sediments and community structure
7: Estuarine habitats and coastal lagoons
8: The estuarine benthos and its distribution
9: Life in the estuarine water column
10: Estuarine ecosystems
11: Uses and abuses: human impact and counter-measures
Further reading; References; Glossary; Appendix; Index