Marine scene
By: by Dwight F. Davis ; illustrated by Virginia Sanders
Contributors: Sanders, Virginia
Publisher: Mote Marine Laboratory
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Sarasota, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9780615125282
Subjects: Marine biology; Oceanography; Marine animals; Wetlands; Marine resources; Aquaculture
Description: Forty-seven of the more than 120 articles on Florida's marine life from The Marine Scene column, printed in the Longboat Observer, between 1991 and 2003.
Table of contents: title: Florida's marine geology; title: On shifting sands; title: The importance of freshwater wetlands; title: Brackish water wetlands: the nursery of the sea; title: Saltwater wetlands; title: Marine habitats: where the life is; title: We're trashing the oceans too; title: The decline and fall of ocean fisheries; title: Aquaculture is tasting better all the time; title: The wonderful world of marine algae; title: Plankton: wanderers of the sea; title: Night lights in the sea; title: The trouble with red tide; title: The nature of coral reefs; title: The mystery of sponges revealed; title: Starfish and their thorny relatives; title: The world of seashells; title: Things that come in on the tide; title: Octopus and squid: the intelligent shellfish; title: There's a giant squid in Sarasota; title: What do you know about lobsters; title: About our crabs; title: What do you know about horseshoe crabs?; title: Almost everybody loves shrimp; title: Whatever happened to grits and grunts?; title: Snook from the Dutch snoek meaning pike; title: Getting to know groupers; title: About the jacks; title: How dangerous is the barracuda?; title: Getting to know snappers; title: The mysterious cobia; title: The lowly mullet; title: Mackerels really get around; title: Eels and more eels than you think; title: Why flatfish are flat ... and fascinating; title: Not just another horse; title: Funny fishes; title: Cleaners of the sea; title: Things that stick and sting; title: How to know what you've caught; title: Shark attack: how great is the danger?; title: How sharks resist cancer; title: How sharks have babies; title: Motherhood and other differences in rays and skates; title: The sea turtles come back; title: The Florida manatee: an endangered species; title: Dolphins and porpoises.