The Ecology of Sandy ShoresThe Ecology of Sandy Shores provides the students and researchers with a one-volume resource for understanding the conservation and management of the sandy shore ecosystem. Covering all beach types, and addressing issues from the behavioral and physiological adaptations of the biota to exploring the effects of pollution and the impact of man's activities, this book should become the standard reference for those interested in Sandy Shore study, management and preservation.
|
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 87
Page ix
... Surf-zone Flora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 4.1 Introduction ... Surf-zone Phytoplankton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.4 Seagrasses . . . . . . . . Table of contents.
... Surf-zone Flora . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 4.1 Introduction ... Surf-zone Phytoplankton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.4 Seagrasses . . . . . . . . Table of contents.
Page xi
... Surf Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 12.6 Energy Flow in Beach and Surf-zone Ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . 238 12.7 Case Study: Sandy Beaches of the Eastern Cape . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 12.8 Nutrient Cycling ...
... Surf Waters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 12.6 Energy Flow in Beach and Surf-zone Ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . 238 12.7 Case Study: Sandy Beaches of the Eastern Cape . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 12.8 Nutrient Cycling ...
Page 2
... surf zone on the rising tide, and others descend onto the beach from the dunes on the falling tide. All of these components interact in a trophic network to create the open ecosystem of the sandy beach, which exchanges materials with ...
... surf zone on the rising tide, and others descend onto the beach from the dunes on the falling tide. All of these components interact in a trophic network to create the open ecosystem of the sandy beach, which exchanges materials with ...
Page 6
... surf-zone water movement, which carries sand offshore during storms and moves it back onshore during calms. The beach is characterized by wave-driven sand transport and by aeolian (wind) transport in the backshore and dunes. Most ...
... surf-zone water movement, which carries sand offshore during storms and moves it back onshore during calms. The beach is characterized by wave-driven sand transport and by aeolian (wind) transport in the backshore and dunes. Most ...
Page 13
... zone) there is a mass flow of water shoreward, causing a drop in water level at and just outside the breakers, called set-down. Water accumulated against the beach by waves is discharged out of the surf zone by rip currents or bed ...
... zone) there is a mass flow of water shoreward, causing a drop in water level at and just outside the breakers, called set-down. Water accumulated against the beach by waves is discharged out of the surf zone by rip currents or bed ...
Contents
31 | |
55 | |
65 | |
Adaptations to Sandybeach Life | 91 |
Benthic Macrofauna Communities | 125 |
Benthic Macrofauna Populations | 163 |
Interstitial Ecology | 181 |
Surfzone Fauna | 197 |
Energetics and Nutrient Cycling | 223 |
Coastal Dune Ecosystems and DuneBeach Interactions | 251 |
Human Impacts | 273 |
Coastal Zone Management | 303 |
Glossary | 325 |
References | 329 |
Appendices | 353 |
Index | 357 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abundance amphipods animals areas bacteria beach face beach types benthic benthos biomass birds bivalves breakers Bullia burrowing changes Chapter clams coast coastal dunes copepods crabs crustaceans cycle decrease Defeo densities deposit feeders diatoms dissipative beaches distribution dominant Donax drift line dunefield dunes Eastern Cape ecosystem effects Emerita environment erosion feeders feeding Figure fishes food chains forms genera genus gradients groundwater habitat impact important increases input interstitial fauna interstitial system intertidal invertebrates isopods juveniles landward larvae littoral active zone longshore low tide macrofauna marine McLachlan meiofauna microbial loop migrations mollusks nitrogen numbers nutrients occur offshore organic oxygen particle Phylum phytoplankton pollution polychaetes populations predators recreational reflective beaches rhythms rip currents sandy beaches seagrasses seaward sediment sheltered slope species richness subtidal supralittoral surf zone surf-zone surface swash talitrid temperature tend tidal tide range tropical typical vegetation water table wave action wave energy whereas wrack zonation zooplankton
Popular passages
Page 16 - Tides, about this time, will rise higher, and fall lower, than they do when the Sun and Moon are at right angles to each other.
Page 349 - Wade, BA (1967). Studies on the biology of the West Indian beach clam, Donax denticulatus Linne.
Page 314 - The level of recreation use an area can sustain without an unacceptable degree of deterioration of the character and quality of the resource or of the recreation experience.
Page 332 - Direct measurement of pore-size distribution on artificial and natural deposits and prediction of pore space accessible to interstitial organisms: DJ Crisp and R.
Page 329 - A., 1978. Production and energy flow in the macrobenthos of two sandy beaches in South West India. Proc.
Page 329 - ANSELL, AD, SIVADAS, P., NARAYANAN, B. and TREVALLION, A., 1972. The ecology of two sandy beaches in south west India. III.
Page 332 - WR 1955. Ecology of the bean clam Donax gouldi on the coast of southern California.
Page 17 - The dotted arrows show the direction the trade winds would take if the earth's rotation did not deflect them to the left in the southern hemisphere and to the right in the northern.
Page 335 - F. (1983). An optical directional factor in the sky might improve the direction finding of sandhoppers on the seashore. Monit. Zool. Ital. (NS) 17:313-317.
Page 334 - Growth, population dynamics, a mass mortality and arrangement of white sand mussels, Donax serra Roding, on beaches in the south-western Cape Province.