Product Description: Atlantic Shorelines is an introduction to the natural history and ecology of shoreline communities on the East Coast of North America. Writing for a broad audience, Mark Bertness examines how distinctive communities of plants and animals are generated on rocky shores and in salt marshes, mangroves, and soft sediment beaches on Atlantic shorelines...read more

Product Description: This text was written to give advanced undergraduate and graduate students an overview of what is known about the structure and organization of the assemblages of organisms that live on the sea floor. Each of the 19 chapters is written by researchers to give students a look at the understanding of these communities and what remaines to be learned about them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Ecology of Atlantic Shorelines is an introduction to the plant and animal communities on the Atlantic shores of North America. Written as a field guide to the physical and biological processes that generate patterns on Western Atlantic shorelines, it is intended for a wide audience ranging from undergraduate students and amateur naturalists to professionals in other disciplines...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)