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Informationen zum Autor Ernest Naylor is professor emeritus at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, where he was Lloyd Roberts Professor of Marine Zoology and Head of School of Ocean Sciences. He has published over 160 scientific publications and has been a Council Member of the UK Natural Environment Research Council, the UK Marine Biological Association, the Challenger Society for Marine Sciences, and a past-President of the Society for Experimental Biology and the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association. He has participated in a House of Lords Select Sub-Committee and various UK and European Commission co-ordinating committees for Marine Science and Technology and is currently involved in reviews of scientific programmes of several marine laboratories in the UK and France, and of UK-supported fisheries projects in the developing world. In 1998 he was appointed OBE. This will be his third book. Klappentext Describes biological rhythms and clocks evolved by marine organisms in relation to tidal, daily, lunar and seasonal life cycle events. Zusammenfassung Many marine creatures have evolved biological rhythms and clocks which permit them to anticipate favourable phases of tidal! daily! lunar and seasonal events in the sea. Provides examples of such clock-based behaviour! permitting increased understanding of plant and animal biology! ecology! behaviour and physiology for undergraduates! graduates and researchers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Moonshine; 2. Biorhythms of coastal organisms; 3. Tidal and daily time-cues; 4. Clocks and compasses; 5. Lunar and semilunar rhythms; 6. Annual biorhythms; 7. Plankton vertical migration rhythms; 8. Staying put in estuaries; 9. Ocean drifters; 10. Living clockwork.
