Pop ‘Reef Life: A Guide to Tropical Marine Life’ by Brandon Cole into your loved one’s stocking this Christmas
Reef Life: A Guide to Tropical Marine Life by Brandon Cole is a practical, up-to-date, comprehensive guidebook for divers, naturalists and students, featuring more than 1,000 colour photographs of 800 species of ocean life.
From tide pools to coral reefs and the open ocean beyond lies a world abounding with an assortment of colourful fish and fascinating creatures. Reef Life identifies the most-likely encountered underwater life in the tropical marine environment, featuring more than 800 beautiful colour photographs that provide the keys to this magnificent world.
A gallery of more than 400 species offers readers an extensive identification guide to the most-likely encountered fishes and features each in detail: name, species, habitat, range and a description particular to the animal covered. With sections on invertebrates and algae, this guide reveals much about the range of animals and plants in the undersea ecosystem. Included is behavioral information on feeding, mimicry, and symbiosis, providing insights into natural survival strategies taking place among animals beneath the ocean surface.
The clear, concise descriptions of the myriad of animals in the tropical oceans are collected in this handy, portable and comprehensive reference for use in the field or at the desk. The surveys of the tropical ocean regions and sea life around the world include:
- The Caribbean
- The Hawaiian Islands
- French Polynesia
- The Fijian Islands
- The Philippines and South China Sea
- Micronesia
- The Indonesian Archipelago
- Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
- The Great Barrier Reef
- Western Thailand and Andaman Sea
- The Maldives and Western Indian Ocean
- The Red Sea
- Tropical Eastern Pacific
Reef Life: A Guide to Tropical Marine Life is available to buy now from Amazon – click here for more details.
