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by Bernard Rivier
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Ce guide définit les principales règles de gestion applicables aux lacs d'altitude élaborées à partir d'une méthode d'inventaire ichtyologique par pêche aux filets maillants. Il met en évidence l'intérêt de peuplements monospécifiques adaptés au contexte hydraulique des lacs d'altitude....
by Sylvia A. Earle
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Por que o destino dos oceanos e o nosso é um só? Esta é a questão que abre A Terra é azul, um misto de relato pessoal, ensaio científico e resumo histórico sobre a impossibilidade de continuarmos ignorando o impacto da extração e da exploração marítima em nosso planeta. Este novo clássico...
by Jean-François Vigier
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Après une introduction sur les maladies des poissons, l'ouvrage traite successivement les viroses, bactérioses, mycoses et parasitoses qui atteignent les anguilles en élevage, avec, dans chaque cas, description de l'agent pathogène, des symptômes de la maladie, des traitements (lorsqu'ils existent)...
Les aloses (Alosa alosa et Alosa fallax spp.)
Écobiologie et variabilité des populations
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Cet ouvrage fait le point sur les connaissances écobiologiques, morphologiques et génétiques acquises sur les populations d'aloses de l'Atlantique-Est et de la Méditerranée-Ouest. Après une présentation générale du genre Alosa, trois thèmes sont abordés : la biologie des espèces et des...
by Jean-Luc Baglinière, Gérard Maisse
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1991
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1991
L'ouvrage fait le point des connaissances sur la biologie et l'écologie de la truite en France, à travers trois thèmes : place dans l'écosystème (habitat, alimentation, organisation sociale) ; biologie des différents écotypes (rivière, lac, mer) et diversité génétique ; gestion des populations naturelles. Public : scientifiques, gestionnaires de la pêche.
Poissons des lacs naturels français
Ecologie des espèces et évolution des peuplements
Language: French
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Après une présentation synthétique de l’écologie des lacs, les exigences écologiques de 27 espèces sont détaillées, avec leurs stratégies de reproduction, des données sur la croissance et la structure des populations. L’évolution de la composition des peuplements, en fonction du niveau...
A Storm Too Soon
A True Story of Disaster, Survival and an Incredib
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
FROM MASTERFUL STORYTELLER MICHAEL J. TOUGIAS COMES A NEW, HEART-STOPPING TRUE-LIFE TALE OF MARITIME DISASTER, SURVIVAL, AND DARING RESCUE, HIS MOST THRILLING AND AMAZING STORY YET.
Seventy-foot waves batter a torn life raft 250 miles out to sea in one of the world’s most dangerous places,...
by Ernst Haeckel
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834–1919) was renowned as one of the foremost early exponents of Darwinism. His work was credited with having caused the acceptance of Darwinism in Europe, and his popular studies ― preaching the continuity of all life, organic and inorganic, from prehistoric time to the...
The Secret Life of Whales
A Marine Biologist Reveals All
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Marine biologist Micheline Jenner discovered humpback breeding grounds off the Kimberley coast, has swum through orange golfball-sized pygmy blue whale poo to uncover a feeding spot, and is one of very few people to witness a humpback whale giving birth. In The Secret Life of Whales she reveals the...
Freshwater Life
A field guide to the plants and animals of southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Freshwater life – the first illustrated field guide of its kind for the wider southern African region – describes a vast range of plant and animal groups in a single volume. A ground-breaking concept that encompasses diverse groups from the large and conspicuous vertebrates to the diverse microscopic...
The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide
A Guide to the Study of the Seaweeds and the Lower Animal Life Found between Tide-marks
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
Introduction
I Signs on the Beach
II Collecting
III Classification
IV Animal Life in its Lowest Forms
V Distribution of Animal Life in the Sea
VI Some Botanical Facts about Algæ
VII Naming...
The Secret Life of Clams
The Mysteries and Magic of Our Favorite Shellfish
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Lovers of science—or seafood—will be happy as a clam with this unique and enlightening history.
It breathes with tubes, it has no head or brain, it feeds through a filter, and it is the source of dozens of familiar proverbs and expressions. Clams, it turns out, have been worshipped (by...
by James Patterson, Jack Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Learn why humans and penguins are similar and find the laughter in everyday life with this beautifully illustrated book from the world's #1 bestselling writer and his son.
Penguins -- our cute, formally dressed, and flightless friends -- have always made us smile. As we shuffle through life...
by Rachel Carson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1998
From the National Book Award–winning author of Silent Spring: An exploration of marine life that takes us into “a truly extraordinary world” (The Atlantic Monthly).
Known for “catching the life breath of science on the still glass of poetry,” nature writer and marine biologist Rachel...