Beneath the Surface

Beneath the Surface

Understanding Nature in the Mullica Valley Estuary

Able, Kenneth W.

Rutgers University Press

08/2020

320

Dura

Inglês

9780813590202

15 a 20 dias

608

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Contents
Dedication
Introduction
1. Penetrating the Surface
2. Mapping the Mullica Valley: Natural History Landscapes
3. Impacts and Invasions
4. Too Much Salt or Not Enough?
5. Seasons and Other Cycles
6. Sources: Both Near and Far
7. Marshes: Food Factories for the Mullica Valley
8. Hidden Habitats
9. Life and Mostly Death
10. Insight from Fisheries
11. Insights from Other Estuaries
12. Climate Change Underwater
13. Sea Level Rise
14. Underwater Calendar
15. Fishe Stories
16. Diamondback Terrapins and the Lost Years
17. Horseshoe Crabs: Ancient Migrators
18. Marine Mammals: Summer and Winter Visitors
19. A Valley Full of Blue Crabs
20. Tales of the Talons
21. River Herring: South Jersey's Salmon
22. White Perch and Hogchoker: Estuarine Migrators
23. Fishes and Shrimp are Important Forage
24. Summer Flounder Mysteries
25. Sharks and Their Relatives
26. Striped Bass: The Migratory Wizard of the Mullica Valley
Appendix Table
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Mullica Valley; east coast; Beneath the Surface; climate variation; animals; plant; Ecosystem; Unique Ecosystem; Migratory Wizard; Lost Years; Ancient migratory; Flounder Mysteries; Fisheries; Underwater; climate change; Important Forage; fishes; Estuarine Migrators; Region; Environment; Ecology; Science; General Interest; Nature; Ecosystems; Environmental Science; Life Sciences; Impacts; Invasions; Natural History; Food Factories