UID:
almafu_9960119686102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-52549-4
Inhalt:
Estuaries of South Africa presents an authoritative and comprehensive review of the current status of the country's estuarine research and management. Information is provided on a wide range of topics, including geological, physical and chemical processes, diversity and productivity of plant and animal communities, interactions between estuarine organisms, and system properties, ecological modelling and current management issues. This broad scope is complemented by a comparative perspective, resulting in a volume which provides a unique contribution to the subject of estuarine ecology, relevant to all those working in this field throughout the world.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Fifteen years on! one hundred and fifty years on! / Brian Allanson, Dan Baird -- Geomorphology and sedimentology / Andrew Cooper, Ian Wright, Tom Mason -- Estuarine hydrodynamics / Eckart Schumann, John Largier, Jill Slinger -- The primary chemical structure / Brian Allanson -- Biogeochemical processes / Deo Winter -- The influence of man / Brian Allanson, Deo Winter -- Estuarine microalgae / Janine Adams, Guy Bate -- Estuarine macrophytes / Janine Adams, Guy Bate, Michael O'Callaghan -- Mangroves in South African estuaries / Trevor Steinke -- Estuarine zooplankton community structure and dynamics / Tris Wooldridge -- The macrobenthos / Casper de Villiers, Alan Hodgson -- Nektonic invertebrates / Anthony Forbes -- Ichthyoplankton diversity, recruitment and dynamics / Alan Whitfield -- The estuarine ichthyofauna / Hannes Marais -- Estuarine birds in South Africa / Philip Hockey, Jane Turpie -- Estuaries as ecosystems: a functional and comparative analysis / Dan Baird -- Influence of man and management of South African estuaries / Patrick Morant, Nevil Quinn -- Perspectives / Brian Allanson, Dan Baird, Allan Heydorn.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-08776-7
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-521-58410-8
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511525490
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