A Student’s Guide to the Seashore

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-8

3. Design and layout of the book

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   Pages 9-9

4. Illustrated guide to the plants and animals of the shore

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   Pages 10-29

5. Algae

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   Pages 30-65

6. Lichenes

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   Pages 66-70

7. Angiospermae

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   Pages 71-75

8. Porifera

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   Pages 76-82

9. Cnidaria

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   Pages 83-121

10. Ctenophora

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    Pages 122-124

11. Platyhelminthes

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    Pages 125-128

12. Nemertea

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    Pages 129-133

13. Priapula

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    Pages 134-135

14. Annelida

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    Pages 136-182

15. Mollusca

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    Pages 183-281

16. Arthropoda

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    Pages 282-350

17. Sipuncula

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    Pages 351-353

18. Echiura

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    Pages 354-355

19. Bryozoa

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    Pages 356-366

20. Phoronida

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    Pages 367-368

At one time or another, we have all been drawn by the fascination of the seashore. For the holiday maker, the relaxing day by the sea often turns out to be a most rewarding foray among rock pools and dense canopies of seaweed; for naturalists and students, the shore is one of the most challenging habitats. Whatever our interests and expertise, one of our first objectives when faced with the diversity of plant and animal life on the shore is to name the individual specimens and we quickly learn that this can be a difficult, though rewarding, occupation. Once an organism has been identified, a number of questions naturally follow. What is its life-cycle? How does it feed and reproduce? How long does it live? The answers to such questions give an insight into the lives of the plants and animals of the shore and are one of the first steps in an understand­ ing of the complexity of the shore environment. However, the information required to answer such questions is not always easily accessible and even when it is known it is often scattered in various books and research journals making it difficult and time consuming to find. Although a variety of identification keys and guides is available, some designed for the specialist, others for the amateur, such texts generally give little, if any, information on the biology of the organisms.

• algae
• biology
• classification
• environment
• formation
• plants
• research
• coastal sciences
• marine and freshwater sciences

• Department of Biological Sciences, The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

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