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Title: Reef Life: Natural History & Behaviors of Marine Fishes & Invertebrates by Denise Nielsen Tackett, Larry Tackett ISBN: 1-890087-56-4 Publisher: Microcosm Ltd Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply Beautiful
Comment: This is a beautiful book with incredible pictures. Additionally it has very informative text. It is a great book for anyone with a serious interest in reefs & reef life.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for the UW Photographer
Comment: I have been waiting for this book! Burt Jones got me focused on the 'one metre' dive a few years back and I've been enjoying macro critters and muck diving ever since. In this awsome new book, the Tacketts bring you their personal experiences with the macro world and incorportate a great deal of useful information which can help all of us better understand the interrelationships amongst all the critters. That understanding is one of the keys to making better images of the critters.
If you are a diver and you really want to get acquainted with the underwater world, stop swimming and start looking. And this book gives you step by step pointers on how to go about looking and helps you understand what you are seeing.
Rating: 4
Summary: much more than pretty pictures
Comment: The Tacketts have achieved something remarkable with this book. Not only is the quality of the photographs consistently high, but the detailed information within the text is logical and accessible to any diver whether they be experts in marine biology or simply curious fish watchers.
This American husband and wife team seem to have lived many divers dream existence. Travelling the Indo Pacific for 13 years, they would camp on a beach with their own compressor and make three dives a day collecting sponge specimens for medical research.
The scientific information is clear and broken down into digestible chunks, enlivened by well annotated pictures - everything from mantis shrimps eating coral shrimps, to frogfish camouflaged against cup corals. Predation, reproduction, camouflage, feeding and mimicry are all wonderfully explained. And, in keeping with the mood of the times there is a final section on reefs in danger - overfishing, cyanide, pollution etc, complete with appropriate photos including a poignant shot of an octopus trying to cover itself with a piece of broken plastic audio-cassette.
A substantial glossary at the end of the book covers everything from allelopathy to zooxanthellae.
The strength and value of this book is that it is not just a collection of good underwater images, I suspect it will become an invaluable primer for any diver who wants to look at reefs in an intelligent way.
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Title: World Atlas of Coral Reefs by Mark D. Spalding, Corinna Ravilious, Edmund P. Green, United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre ISBN: 0520232550 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 03 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Coral Reefs: Ecology, Threats, and Conservation (World Life Library) by Charles Sheppard ISBN: 0896582205 Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN) Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Reef Fish Identification - Tropical Pacific by Gerald Allen, Roger Steene, Paul Humann, Ned DeLoach ISBN: 1878348361 Publisher: New World Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Reef Fish Behavior: Florida Caribbean Bahamas by Ned Deloach, Paul Humann ISBN: 1878348280 Publisher: New World Publications Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Corals: A Quick Reference Guide (Oceanographic Series) by Julian Sprung ISBN: 1883693098 Publisher: Ricordea Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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