Encyclopedia of Tidepools and Rocky Shores

The editors suggest that tide pools are for many people their first experience of the biology of the sea. It was for me, and so I am pleased to have this volume for review. With an intentional pun I have been dipping into this book for a couple weeks reading some of the shorter entries, particularly those about animals. I have also read some of the longer articles, a mixture of some chosen at random and some that were of interest.

The scope of this volume is wide, but always focused. The correlation of species diversity and latitude is illustrated...