Beneath the Surface : Understanding Nature in the Mullica Valley Estuary

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Beneath the Surface : Understanding Nature in the Mullica Valley Estuary

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 320 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780813590202
  • DDC分類 577.786

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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.

Contents

Contents

Dedication

Introduction

1. Penetrating the Surface

2. Mapping the Mullica Valley: Natural History Landscapes

3. Impacts and Invasions

4. Too Much Salt or Not Enough?

5. Seasons and Other Cycles

6. Sources: Both Near and Far

7. Marshes: Food Factories for the Mullica Valley

8. Hidden Habitats

9. Life and Mostly Death

10. Insight from Fisheries

11. Insights from Other Estuaries

12. Climate Change Underwater

13. Sea Level Rise

14. Underwater Calendar

15. Fishe Stories

16. Diamondback Terrapins and the Lost Years

17. Horseshoe Crabs: Ancient Migrators

18. Marine Mammals: Summer and Winter Visitors

19. A Valley Full of Blue Crabs

20. Tales of the Talons

21. River Herring: South Jersey's Salmon

22. White Perch and Hogchoker: Estuarine Migrators

23. Fishes and Shrimp are Important Forage

24. Summer Flounder Mysteries

25. Sharks and Their Relatives

26. Striped Bass: The Migratory Wizard of the Mullica Valley

Appendix Table

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index