The ecology of Poole Harbour:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier 2005
Edition:1st ed
Series:Proceedings in marine science 7
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Poole Harbour's unique combination of physical characteristics provide for a rich and productive ecological community recognised for its internationally significant bird populations and as a haven for the naturalisation of exotic species. But the Harbour is also exceptional in the extent to which it represents in microcosm the world-wide tensions between environment and development. The contrasts are sometimes startling: the narrow Harbour entrance separates an unspoilt natural environment of considerable importance from an urban landscape where property competes with Manhattan and Hong Kong Island in the world-wide table of real estate values. The Harbour serves as a port, fishing ground, a receiver of effluent and increasingly as a playground for the affluent. It also lies above Europe's largest on-shore oil-field. <IT>The Ecology of Poole Harbour</IT> brings together for the first time expert contributions in such a way as to provide a picture of the ecology of the Harbour system as a whole. It covers all the major habitats from reed beds and salt marshes to the extensive mudflats and unseen sub-tidal regions, while also examining in some detail a wide range of ecological phenomena and issues. * First expert overview of ecology of Poole Harbour as a whole
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 282 p.)
ISBN:9780444520647
0444520643
0080460321
9780080460321

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