Life in the Chesapeake Bay

Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Year: 2006
• eBook ISBN: 9780801891984
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology
• Index: Biological Sciences

Life in the Chesapeake Bay is the most important book ever published on America's largest estuary. Since publication of the first edition in 1984, tens of thousands of naturalists, boaters, fishermen, and conservationists have relied on the book's descriptions of the Bay's plants, animals, and diverse habitats. Superbly illustrated and clearly written, this acclaimed guide describes hundreds of plants and animals and their habitats, from diamondback terrapins to blue crabs to hornshell snails.

Now in its third edition, the book has been updated with a new gallery of thirty-nine color photographs and dozens of new species descriptions and illustrations. The new edition retains the charm of an engaging classic while adding a decade of new research.

This classic guide to the plants and animals of the Chesapeake Bay will appeal to a variety of readers—year-round residents and summer vacationers, professional biologists and amateur scientists, conservationists and sportsmen.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Maps
• Preface
• A Perspective: Past, Present, and Future
• 1. ECOLOGY OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY
• 2. SAND BEACHES
• 3. INTERTIDAL FLATS
• 4. PIERS, ROCKS, AND JETTIES
• 5. SHALLOW WATERS
• 6. SEAGRASS MEADOWS AND WEED BEDS
• 7. WETLANDS
• 8. OYSTER BARS
• 9. DEEPER, OPEN WATERS
• Glossary
• Species List and Distributions by Salinity Zones
• Birds—Species List and Seasonal Occurrence
• Selected References
• Index