Beneath the Surface
eBook - PDF

Beneath the Surface

Understanding Nature in the Mullica Valley Estuary

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Beneath the Surface

Understanding Nature in the Mullica Valley Estuary

About this book

2021 winner of Non-fiction popular category: New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance

The Mullica Valley estuary and its watershed, formed over the last 10,000 years, are among the cleanest estuaries along the east coast of the United States. This 365,000-acre ecosystem benefits from a combination of protected watershed, low human population density, and general lack of extensive development. In Beneath the Surface, marine scientist Ken Able helps the reader penetrate the surface and gain insights into the kinds of habitats, animals, and plants that live there. Readers will gain a better understanding of the importance of these shallow waters; how the amount of salt in the water determines where animals and plants are found in estuaries; the day-night, seasonal, and annual variation in their occurrence; and how change is occurring as the result of climate variation. Throughout the book are insightful sidebars telling intimate stories of where various animals came from and where they are going as they travel through the estuary on their way to and from other portions of the east coast. Beneath the Surface emphasizes the kinds and importance of the animals and plants that live beneath the surface of this unique ecosystem.

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Information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9780813590233
Print ISBN
9780813590196
9780813590202
Subtopic
North American History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. CHAPTER 1 - Penetrating the Surface
  4. CHAPTER 2 - Mapping the Mullica Valley: Natural History Landscapes
  5. CHAPTER 3 - Impacts and Invasions
  6. CHAPTER 4 - Too Much Salt or Not Enough?
  7. CHAPTER 5 - Seasons and Other Cycles
  8. CHAPTER 6 - Sources: Both Near and Far
  9. CHAPTER 7 - Marshes: Food Factories for the Mullica Valley
  10. CHAPTER 8 - Hidden Habitats
  11. CHAPTER 9 - Life and Mostly Death
  12. CHAPTER 10 - Insights from Fisheries
  13. CHAPTER 11 - Insights from Other Estuaries
  14. CHAPTER 12 - Climate Change Underwater
  15. CHAPTER 13 - Sea Level Rise
  16. CHAPTER 14 - Underwater Calendar
  17. CHAPTER 15 - Fishe Stories
  18. Appendix
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. References
  21. Index

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