Exploring Britain's Hidden World
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Exploring Britain's Hidden World: A natural history of seabed habitats

Exploring Britain's Hidden World: A natural history of seabed habitats


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Table of Contents:
Foreword 5 Preface 7 Using this book 7 Exploration and discovery: the first 150 years 9 Early days 9 Systematic studies - remote sampling 13 Diving and video surveys 17 Gathering knowledge and creating information - the past 50 years or so 21 Remote sampling and observation 21 Scuba diving takes-off 28 How we made sense of it all (biotopes) 36 Shaping the seabed environment 40 Britain's place in the world 40 Ocean currents 42 Wave action 42 Tidal currents 48 Wave action and tidal currents together 50 Light and depth 52 Salt and fresh 55 Weather events 55 Modifying factors 57 Physical and biological factors: bringing it all together 57 Habitats 60 Sediments 60 Open coast and rocky areas 78 Wrecks and other artificial substrata 114 Sea lochs 134 Rias and voes 152 Tidal sounds and other extremely tide-swept habitats 162 Estuaries 170 Saline lagoons 180 Species as habitats 185 Change 205 Seasons in the sea 208 Human activities 220 Decadal scale change 221 Non-native species 226 Concluding remarks 228 Protecting what we have 230 Threats and sensitivities 231 Protection 234 Marine protected areas - what they will and will not do 237 Restoration? 240 Research 240 The dilemma of non-native species 241 What you can do 242 The future is here 243 Finding information 243 Making seabed biology information `useful' 245 Visualisation 246 Collecting information 248 Glossary 250 Acknowledgements 256 Index 257 The author 263 The sponsors 264

About the Author :
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.

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"Combining [Hiscock's] obersvations with hundreds of photographs, the result is this erudite and indispensable companion to our shores."---Helen Scales, BBC Wildlife "Exploring Britain’s Hidden World is like a perfectly presented personal scrapbook produced from a life at the coalface, so to speak. . . . . the text is a well weighted fusion of down to earth and science and the images are consistently good at showing what is needed without fancy lighting and photographic trickery."---Peter Rowlands, Underwater Photography Magazine "This is a seminal work, the sort that only appears once in a life-time . . . . It is a boon to natural historians, peppered with anecdotes on little known gems on our marine fauna . . . . Anyone with an interest in British marine biology should have this work on their bookshelf."---Myles O’Reilly, Glasgow Naturalist "Exploring Britain's Hidden World provides a detailed yet highly accessible introduction to our diverse shallow sea habitats and the wonderful marine life they support."---Paula Lightfoot, Porcupine Marine Natural History Society "Exploring Britain's Hidden World is a fantastic book that combines superb photography with some exciting science."---Amanda Hardy, The Biologist "The text is illustrated with photos that are generally excellent. And the text itself conveys its message in a straightforward way."---Tim Butter, Subsea Magazine "This is a lavishly illustrated and well produced book that gives a wonderful insight into this world and is thoroughly recommended."---Roy Stewart, British Naturalist’s Association "[An] erudite and indispensable companion to our shores. . . . Hiscock explains why things are the way they are and urges us to protect this hidden habitat."---Helen Scales, Discover Wildlife


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780995567344
  • Publisher: Wild Nature Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Wild Nature Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Width: 210 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0995567344
  • Publisher Date: 26 Mar 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A natural history of seabed habitats


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