The Sharks of North America

Informationen zum Autor Jose I. Castro is a fisheries biologist with NOAA and a senior scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory. He received a B.S. from the University of Miami and a Ph.D. in Zoology from Clemson University. He is a shark specialist who has conducted research on different aspects of shark biology including their reproductive biology and their use of nursery areas, and has published numerous scientific articles and the well-known book The Sharks of North American Waters. He has been active in the management of shark fisheries and the conservation of sharks and lectures often at universities and research institutions throughout the world. Prior to his present position he worked as a shark biologist for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in the Caribbean. Klappentext A complete reference to all the sharks inhabiting North American waters, with excellent colour illustrations of all the species. Zusammenfassung A complete reference to all the sharks inhabiting North American waters, with excellent colour illustrations of all the species. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreward Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Key to the Families of North American Sharks Species Accounts Glossary Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Jose Castro, Jose (Fisheries Biologist Castro, Jose I Castro, Jose I. Castro, Jose/ Peebles Castro, Diane Peebles, Peebles Diane
• Assisted by: Diane Rome Peebles (Illustration)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2011
• EAN: 9780195392944
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539294-4
• No. of pages: 560
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; North America, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Marine Biology, NATURE / Animals / Marine Life, Sea life and the seashore: general interest, Sea life & the seashore, North America (USA and Canada), Marine Biology, Fishes (Ichthyology), Zoology: fishes (ichthyology)