A. J. P. Gore (Editor): Mires: Swamp, Bog, Fen and Moor. = Ecosystems of the World (Editor David W. Goodall) Vols 4 A (General Studies) and 4 B (Regional Studies).-440 +478 pp. Amsterdam — Oxford — New York: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company 1983. ISBN 0-444-42003-7 (4 A) 42004-5 (4 B). Dfl. 380.00+380.00, US $ 161.75+161.75
✍ Scribed by H. Caspers
- Book ID
- 102285409
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 306 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-2944
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✦ Synopsis
Book ReT-ieir-s nients.4'. 13. OFE'I(.EH describes the physics of estuarine circulation. In his contribution "Responses to estuarine strew". \ \ . B. VERSLIERG points out that estuarine animals are recruit,ed mainly from the sea ant1 ha\c adaptations to resist variations in salinity, teinpcrature. oxygen and desiccation. They de-clopetl strategies for clieinical regiilation and excretion and also show respiratory adaptations. T. .J. Sl\ra~u.4 dcscribes the phytoplankton froin the Kiel Bight in tlie Baltic, Narragansett Bay, itiitl tlie Cochin Backwater. Are these reall>-representative estuarine systems?-C. B. MILLER pro-itlctl a paper on the zooplankton, mainly that in Xarragansett Bay, but he also includes information on typical rirer estuaries. MILLER describes, in detail, the biology of est,uarine copepoils, dcrrrfiic an11 Euryteworn. their population maintenance and flushing rates. The review on the estuarine 1)entlios by JV. J. KOLFF is based on the author's experience with the softbottom maerofaiinn in a number of estuaries in The Sctherlancls. He discusses adaptations, . distrihution patterns. REXISE'S species-salinity relationship, and the roncerning tlic possible causes of tlic Ion-number of species in brackish waters.
Finally, TI. T . . IT.\ I.:I)Kl('H describes the i i a t u r e of estiiiit'ine fish faiinas and the life histories of anadromous and i ~i t ii (11.0 iiious spcrics.
As csamples of c~n~.loscrl seas. eight seas and two gulfs were selected: Tlie Nediterranean Sea (physival and 1,ioIoyic.al aspects; -4. R. JIILLER and -4. HES-TLTII). t h e Black Sea ('k-u. I. Sorso-KIS). the Red Scii (I). -1. Ross), the Baltic Sea (Ci. KVLLESBERG), the Bering Sea (D. W. HOOD), the Okhotsk Sea. the ,Japan Sea, tlie East c'liina Sea (S. SISHi>ITH.), The Gulf of 8t. Lawrence (C. 31. DICKIE 8 R . IT. THITES). and tli? C:nlf of California (S. ALYAREZ-BORREGO). This is a valiiahle collwt ioii of monograplis (IVliy is the Caspian Sea missing?), all with n i m y figures and references. H. CASPERS