Studying temperate marine environments: a handbook for ecologists.

Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1998.
Octavo, paperback, 335 pp. colour illustrations.

Includes procedures for establishing studies of both mobile and sessile species on soft and hard bottoms, reef fish and pelagic species.

A much-needed manual for professional biologists, conservation officers, university lecturers and senior students studying marine habitats. It describes procedures for establishing a study, the study of marine protected areas, and benthic surveys of both mobile and sessile species on soft and hard bottoms. Also covered are methods of surveying reef fish and pelagic species, including plankton. Data analysis and treatment of specimens are covered in detail, and a resource section provides a directory of expertise in relevant fields.

Thoroughly authoritative and up to date, the book includes case studies from both sides of the Tasman as well as the northern hemisphere, and will be useful in planning and executing studies of temperate marine habitats anywhere in the world.