Life in the Chesapeake Bay

Name: Life in the Chesapeake Bay
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ISBN: 9780801883385

ISBN-10: 0801883385

ISBN-13: 9780801883385

Edition: 3rd 2006

Authors: Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson

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Life in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America's largest estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of naturalists, boaters, fishermen, and conservationists have relied on the book's descriptions of the Bay's plants, animals, and diverse habitats. Superbly illustrated and clearly written, this acclaimed guide describes hundreds of plants and animals and their habitats, from diamondback terrapins to blue crabs to hornshell snails. Now in its third edition, the book has been updated with a new gallery of thirty-nine color photographs and dozens of new species descriptions and illustrations. The new edition retains the charm of…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 6/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 7.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Alice Jane Lippson has worked as a research scientist at the University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and Martin-Marietta Corporation and as a professional scientific illustrator.

Robert L. Lippson has served as senior scientist of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Chesapeake Bay Estuarine Research Program, research scientist at the University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University.



List of Maps


Preface


A Perspective: Past, Present, and Future



Ecology of the Chesapeake Bay


How Salty Is the Water?


Typical Habitats of the Bay and Its Tributaries


Classification of Animals and Plants



Sand Beaches


Plants along the Upper Beach


Dwellers on the Beach


Signs of Life


Birds of the Beach


Ancient Relics of the Sea


Shell Guide



Intertidal Flats


Plant Life on the Flats


Roamers over the Flats


The World beneath the Intertidal Muds


Waders and Pickers on the Flats



Piers, Rocks, and Jetties


Barnacles


Bugs of the Pilings


Worms on the Pilings


Sea Squirts and the Like


Mussels


Sponges


Sea Anemones


Hydroids-Feathery Animals


Whip Coral


Skeleton Shrimps


Bryozoans


Termites of the Sea


Aerial Gleaners



Shallow Waters


Fishes


Plankton Soup


Insects of the Shallows


Crustaceans of the Shallows


Clams of the Shallows


Snails of Fresher Waters


Arks of the Lower Bay


Birds of the Shallows


Turtles and Snakes



Seagrass Meadows and Weed Beds


Underwater Plants


Seagrass Meadows


Weed Beds of the Upper Bay



Wetlands


Tidal Freshwater Marshes


Salt Marshes


The Maritime Forest


Forested Wetlands


Insects of the Wetlands


Birds of the Wetlands


Mammals of the Marshes



Oyster Bars


The Famous Oyster


Life in, on, and among the Oysters


Crabs and Other Crustaceans


Mollusks of the Oyster Community


Fishes



Deeper, Open Waters


Dwellers on the Bottom


Dwellers in the Bottom


Creatures of the Open Waters


Fishes of the Open Waters


Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles of the Open Waters


Birds of the Open Waters


Glossary


Species List and Distributions by Salinity Zones


Birds-Species List and Seasonal Occurrence


Selected References


Index