TY - BOOK ID - 14657398 TI - Intertidal ecology AU - Hawkins, S. J. AU - Raffaelli, David G. PY - 1996 SN - 940091489X 0412299607 041229950X 9780412299605 PB - London Chapman and Hall DB - UniCat KW - Life sciences. KW - Ecology. KW - Aquatic ecology. KW - Evolutionary biology. KW - Life Sciences. KW - Freshwater & Marine Ecology. KW - Evolutionary Biology. KW - Intertidal ecology. KW - Seashores KW - #WDIR:wbse KW - Intertidal ecology KW - Seashore ecology KW - Natural history. KW - Ecology . KW - Aquatic ecology . KW - Animal evolution KW - Animals KW - Biological evolution KW - Darwinism KW - Evolutionary biology KW - Evolutionary science KW - Origin of species KW - Biology KW - Evolution KW - Biological fitness KW - Homoplasy KW - Natural selection KW - Phylogeny KW - Aquatic biology KW - Ecology KW - Balance of nature KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology KW - Intertidal zone ecology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14657398 AB - The seashore has long been the subject of fascination and study - the Ancient Greek scholar Aristotle made observations and wrote about Mediterranean sea urchins. The considerable knowledge of what to eat and where it could be found has been passed down since prehistoric times by oral tradition in many societies - in Britain it is still unwise to eat shellfish in months without an 'r' in them. Over the last three hundred years or so we have seen the formalization of science and this of course has touched intertidal ecology. Linnaeus classified specimens collected from the seashore and many common species (Patella vulgata L. , Mytilus edulis L. , Littorina littorea (L. )) bear his imprint because he formally described, named and catalogued them. Early natural historians described zonation patterns in the first part of the 19th century (Audouin and Milne-Edwards, 1832), and the Victorians became avid admirers and collectors of shore animals and plants with the advent of the new fashion of seaside holidays (Gosse, 1856; Kingsley, 1856). As science became professionalized towards the end of the century, marine biologists took advantage of low tides to gain easy access to marine life for taxonomic work and classical studies of functional morphology. The first serious studies of the ecology of the shore were made at this time (e. g. ER -