BIBLIOGRAPHY
Seastar Biology
Taxonomy
Life History
Echinoderms
Rocky Intertidal
The Study
Introduction
Methods
Results
Discussion
Picture Gallery
Bibliography and Weblinks
Glossary
Bertness, Mark D. 1999. The Ecology of Atlantic Shorelines. Massachusetts: Sinauer Associates.
Bousfield, E.L. 1960. Canadian Atlantic sea shells. National Museum of Canada. Ottawa: The Queen’s Printer and Controller of Stationary.
Castro, Peter & Huber, Michael E. 2003. Marine Biology, 4th edition. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Franz, D.R., Worley E.K. & Merrill, A.S. 1981. Distribution Patterns of Common Seastars of the Middle Atlantic Continental Shelf of the Northwest Atlantic (Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras). Biological Bulletin, 160, 394-418.
Gaymer, C.F., Himmelman, J.H. & Johnson, L.E. 2001. Distribution and feeding ecology of the seastars Leptasterias polaris and Asterias vulgaris in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 81, 827-843.
Himmelman, J.H. 1991. Diving observations of subtidal communities in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence. In The Gulf of St. Lawrence: small ocean or big estuary? Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 113, 319-332.
Himmelman, J.H. & Dutil, C. 1991. Distribution, population size-structure and feeding of subtidal seastars in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 76, 61-72.
Lubchenco, J. & Menge, B.A. 1978. Community Development and Persistence in a Low Rocky Intertidal Zone. Ecological Monographs, 59, 67-94.
Menge, B.A. 1979. Coexistence between the seastars Asterias vulgaris and A. forbesi in a heterogeneous environment: a non-equilibrium explanation. Oecologia (Berlin) 41, 245-272.
Menge, B.A. 1986. A preliminary study of the reproductive ecology of the seastars Asterias vulgaris and A. forbesi in New England. Bulletin of Marine Science, 39(2), 467-476.
WEBLINKS
The
splendors of the sea and wonders of the universe
http://www.seasky.org/reeflife/sea2d.html
Invertebrates
and multicelled animals
http://www.starfish.ch/reef/echinoderms.html
Ocean animals
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/animals/echinod.htm
Animal diversity web http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Echinodermata.html
Tree of
Life - Asteroidea
http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Asteroidea&contgroup=Echinodermata
Infoplease
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0861002.html
Infinite thanks to Deb, Todd and Camilo for the guidance, wisdom and encouragement...
see you around the intertidal.
