Life Along the Inner Coast: A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West - Hardcover

Lippson, Alice Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807833037 ISBN 13: 9780807833032

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009

Synopsis

This title features more than 800 species from these fresh, brackish, and salty waters. For decades, marine scientists Robert and Alice Jane Lippson have traveled the Inner Coast - the rivers, backwaters, sounds, bays, lagoons, and inlets stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys - aboard their trawler, Odyssey. The culmination of their leisurely journeys, "Life along the Inner Coast" is a guide to the plants, animals, and habitats found in one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet. This dense system of waterways contains an incredible range of salinity levels, from fresh to brackish to oceanic, and is host to flora and fauna that have adapted to both specific and broad ranges of ecological habitats. The Lippsons explore each habitat, from wooded wetlands, broad marshes, and sandy beaches, to the hundreds of piers and pilings thrusting into the waters, to the vast shallow waters rich in populations of fish, crabs, mollusks, and myriad other marine creatures. They describe more than 800 species that are beautifully illustrated with meticulous ink drawings and photographs and organized according to habitat type and geographic region. Ranging from the busy commercial harbor at Norfolk through vast expanses of marshlands of the mid-Atlantic to the tropical mangrove islands of Florida, "Life along the Inner Coast" offers readers a rich understanding of the relationships between organisms and where they live. It is a valuable resource for naturalists, students, and anyone who lives or vacations along the Atlantic Inner Coast.

About this title

About the Author

ROBERT L. LIPPSON has served as senior scientist of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Chesapeake Bay Estuarine Research Program, research scientist at the University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, and adjunct professor at Michigan State University. ALICE JANE LIPPSON has worked as a research scientist at the University of Maryland Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and Martin-Marietta Corporation as well as a professional scientific illustrator. Together, they are authors of the popular guidebook Life in the Chesapeake Bay.

From the Inside Flap

Based on the Lippsons' decades of travel along the rivers, backwaters, sounds, bays, lagoons, and inlets stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys, this book is a guide to the plants, animals, and habitats found in one of the most biologically diverse regions on the planet. The Lippsons (both marine scientists) explore each habitat and describe more than 800 species organized according to habitat type and geographic region. Features 395 drawings, 20 halftones, 6 maps, 2-color throughout.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807833037
• ISBN 13: 9780807833032
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 472