Ireland's ocean
Subtitle: a natural history
By: Michael Viney & Ethna Viney.
Contributors: Viney, Ethna.
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cork
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781905172665
Subjects: Marine ecology -- Ireland
Description: "Ireland's ocean neighbourhood is both intimate and vast, from the pools and kelp forests of the shores to the distant canyons and precipices of the continental shelf - a territory now mapped by the National Seabed Survey. Among its discoveries are astonishing deep-sea coral reefs, teeming with diversity, part of the hidden landscape explored in these pages. The ocean species and ecosystems - lives as microscopic as plankton, as majestic as sharks and whales - are introduced and described, as are the challenges that face both the fish and their human predators."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195) and index.