Life Between the Tides: Marine Plants and Animals of the Northeast

by Les Watling, Jill Fegley, John Moring

This beautiful little field guide by leading marine scientists will help you identify and learn about the many plants and animals of the intertidal zone of northern New England and the Maritimes. Don’t go to the water’s edge without it! Maybe you simply enjoy walking along the beach, searching the wrack line and exploring tidepools. Or you fish or hunt in salt marshes and estuaries and are interested in all that surrounds you. Perhaps you're an educator or volunteer along the coast. Here's a beautifully illustrated little field guide that will help you identify and learn about the many plants and animals of our intertidal zone. Written for the Maine Sea Grant Program, it's a fact filled resource, arranged for easy identification, covering habitats, invertebrates, fishes, and marine plants and seaweeds.  Andrea Sulzer's pen-and-ink drawings, carefully done from live specimens, are finely detailed works of art. B&W drawings

Genres: Nature, Science

158 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2003

Reviews

[Peter Goggins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well illustrated, quick and to the point. My one gripe is the section on littoral fishes is greatly truncated and should have included at least five more species that came to mind by the end of the chapter.

[Caroline Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

I skipped the worms and worm-like creatures section bc it was gross. Overall lovely!