Life along the inner coast : a naturalist's guide to the sounds, inlets, rivers, and intracoastal waterway from Norfolk to Key West
Title:
Life along the inner coast : a naturalist's guide to the sounds, inlets, rivers, and intracoastal waterway from Norfolk to Key West
Author:
Lippson, Robert L.
Lippson, Alice Jane
ISBN:
9780807833032
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Physical Description:
xi, 454 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Forested wetlands, wooded shorelines, and swamps -- Marshes and mangrove swamps -- Beaches -- Intertidal flats -- Places to settle: pilings, floating docks, rubble structures, and mangrove prop roots -- The shallows -- Weed beds and seagrass meadows -- Live bottoms: oyster reefs, patch reefs, and worm rocks.
Subject:
| Natural history -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) |
| Intracoastal waterways -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) |
| Coastal ecology -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) |
| Mangrove ecology -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) |
| Barrier island ecology -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) |
| Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- Environmental conditions |