Seashore Ecology Of New Zealand And The Pacific

Local Description

The culmination of the life's work of one of our most respected scientists, this is the definitive guide to our unique and varied coast. With over 380 diagrams and illustrations, and descriptions of the major coastal environments of the wider Pacific region, this is a vital text for undergraduate study and an essential tool for shore ecology, conservation and management.

This copy is in excellent condition.

Description

The culmination of the life's work of one of our mosdt respected scientists, this is the definitive guide to our unique and varied coast. With over 380 diagrams and illustrations, and descriptions of the major coastal environments of the wider Pacific region, this is a vital text for undergraduate study and an essential tool for shore ecology, conservation and management.

Author description

Graduating in zoology at Auckland University in 1946, John Morton spent ten years in England, lecturing in the University of London and working on Molluscs at Plymouth. His publications gained him the London DSc. In 1960, Morton became Auckland University's first Professor of Zoology, and was to set up a modern school centring around marine biology. The year 1965 saw the opening of the Leigh Marine Biology Laboratory and the completion of Morton and Miller The New Zealand Sea Shore. It was also the year that John Morton led the marine party of the Royal Society of London's Expedition to the Solomon Islands. This brought him continuing interest in Pacific coral reefs and he went on to work intensively in Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea. In 1974 he was Royal Society Visiting Professor in Zoology in Hong Kong, producing - with B.S. Morton - a book on south-east Asian shores. In 1977 he taught and researched at Vancouver Island and on the Atlantic shores of Canada. He has a long interest in biological philosophy and, in more recent years, conservation.

Table of contents

New Zealand: the pattern of shores; life forms of the zoned shore; some basic zoning; the tides and waves; high energy (exposed) shores; close shelter; shores with enriched algae; pools, crevices and borings; coastal bedrock; islands and biogeography; boulder shores; life forms under boulders; dark communities; communities and succession; beyond the tides. The Pacific Rim: East Australia; Pacific Asia; Pacific America. Pacific Coral Shores: reefs and their building; crossing the reef; the inhabited shore; mangroves; coral outposts.