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Rocky Shores: Exploitation in Chile and South Africa

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. W. Roy Siegfried

    1. Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 103)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. The Exploitation of Intertidal and Subtidal Biotic Resources of Rocky Shores in Chile and South Africa — An Overview

    • W. R. Siegfried, P. A. R. Hockey, G. M. Branch
    Pages 1-15

  3. Man as a Component of the Littoral Predator Spectrum: A Conceptual Overview

    • P. A. R. Hockey
    Pages 17-31

  4. Seaweeds as Resources

    • B. Santelices, C. L. Griffiths
    Pages 33-55

  5. Intertidal and Subtidal Filter-Feeders in Southern Africa

    • A. H. Dye, M. H. Schleyer, G. Lambert, T. A. Lasiak
    Pages 57-74

  6. Intertidal and Subtidal Grazers

    • G. M. Branch, C. A. Moreno
    Pages 75-100

  7. Exploitation of Two Critical Predators: The Gastropod Concholepas concholepas and the Rock Lobster Jasus lalandii

    • J. C. Castilla, G. M. Branch, A. Barkai
    Pages 101-130

  8. Biological Options for the Management of the Exploitation of Intertidal and Subtidal Resources

    • A. H. Dye, G. M. Branch, J. C. Castilla, B. A. Bennett
    Pages 131-154

  9. Socio-Economic Options for the Management of the Exploitation of Intertidal and Subtidal Resources

    • F. J. Odendaal, M. O. Bergh, G. M. Branch
    Pages 155-167

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 169-180
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It seems almost trite to introduce this book by saying that man has been exploiting the intertidal zone for food for a long time. Just how long nobody knows for sure but the prehistoric inhabitants of Terra Amata, on the Mediterranean coast near Nice, ate marine intertidal animals at least 300 000 years ago. Similar impressive evidence, going back to at least 100000 years, exists for prehistoric man's consumption of intertidal animals along the South African coast. However, early man's dependence on intertidal resources probably goes back much further in time. During the last 2 million or so years temperate Eurasia experienced some 20 glaciations interspersed by warm equable periods. Different modes of life were open to man in colonizing the northern temperate zone. One was to become a "big-game" hunter, specializing, for example, on mammoths, the other to exploit marine intertidal resources. Of the two, probably the shoreline offered an easier environment for an original scavenging food-gatherer.

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  • Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

    W. Roy Siegfried

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