Exploring Britain's Hidden World
A Natural History of Seabed Habitats
1st Edition
Published on 11. January 2022
272 pages
978-0-691-24041-1 (ISBN)
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Keith Hiscock is a marine ecologist who has been studying marine habitats and species for more than fifty years. His wealth of knowledge and experience in studying Britain's seabed habitats is unsurpassed.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Using this book
- Exploration and discovery: the first 150 years
- Early days
- Systematic studies - remote sampling
- Diving and video surveys
- Gathering knowledge and creating information - the past 50 years or so
- Remote sampling and observation
- Scuba diving takes off
- How we made sense of it all (biotopes)
- Shaping the seabed environment
- Britain's place in the world
- Ocean currents
- Wave action
- Tidal currents
- Wave action and tidal currents together
- Light and depth
- Salt and fresh
- Weather events
- Modifying factors
- Physical and biological factors: bringing it all together
- Habitats
- Sediments
- Open coast rocky areas
- Wrecks and other artificial substrata
- Sea lochs
- Rias and voes
- Tidal sounds and other extremely tide-swept habitats
- Estuaries
- Saline lagoons
- Species as habitats
- Change
- Seasons in the sea
- Human activities
- Decadal scale change
- Non-native species
- Seawater warming
- What you can do
- Protecting what we have
- Threats and sensitivities
- Protection
- Marine protected areas - what they will and will not do
- Restoration?
- Research
- The dilemma of non-native species
- What you can do
- Technology takes off
- Finding information
- Making seabed biology information 'useful'
- Visualisation
- Collecting information
- Glossary
- Biotopes listed and illustrated
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- The author
- The sponsors
