The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon (4th ed.)

Global warming is believed to be a cause of changing species distribution patterns, and such changes can be clearly seen in intertidal invertebrates. Nine years ago Raphael Sagarin and colleagues at the University of California published a paper in which they replicated a survey first carried out in the area 30 years earlier (Sagarin et al., 1999). This study showed an increase in species with a more southerly distribution, coupled with a decrease in those species found in colder northern waters. With climate change of increasing concern, this new edition of the Light and Smith Manual is...