Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument Condition Report 2009
by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis
Taxonomic Guide
by J L Bright, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis, and D Lipski
Climate Change and Animal Health (CRC One Health One Welfare)
This benchmark publication assembles information on the current and anticipated effects of climate change on animal health. It empowers educators, managers, practitioners, and researchers by providing evidence, experience, and opinions on what we need to do to prepare for, and cope with, the largest threat ever to have faced animals on this planet. With expert contributors from across the globe, the text equips the reader with information and means to develop sustainable adaptation or mitigation...
How often have you visited the seashore and wished you knew more about the diverse and alien wildlife found on the UK's coastline? There are incredible stories to discover about our coastal species so if the tantalising glimpses you've caught of this semi-aquatic environment between the tides has left you curious to learn more the RSPB Handbook of the Seashore is for you. It will help you to easily identify and learn about the life cycles and anatomy of the species you discover, and features...
Look At This Adorable Creature Just Look At It Notebook Journal
by Happy Aquariums
Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl Who Really Loved Pandas It Was Me The End
by Eve Emelia
Fish is the aspirational food for Western society, the healthy, weight-conscious choice, but those who eat and celebrate fish often ignore the fact that fishing is an industry as technologically advanced as space travel, with an attitude to conservation 10,000 years out of date. Trawling on an industrial scale in the North Sea smashes everything it does not catch, taking 16 lbs of dead marine animals to produce just 1lb of sole. Regulation isn't working, with fishermen losing money, dolphins dyi...
Warning May Spontaneously Start Talking About Pigs
by Nzspace Publisher
Periplus Action Guide: Diving South East Asia (Periplus action guides)
by Gerald Allen
The vast Indo-Pacific region is the very heart of the world's richest marine biological province. The development of its coral reefs is unsurpassed, forming a sanctuary for a myriad of colorful, often bizarre life forms. This handy reference book provides a compact, comprehensive introduction to this vast aquatic world through 350 high-quality photographs by some of the world's finest underwater photographers. The text is prepared by Dr. Gerald Allen, renowned expert on coral reef fishes and aut...
Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing--or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the "best book ever written about nature," and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael's sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville h...