Margaret Smith Library, SAIAB: New Books: August 2024

Braiding Sweetgrass is a combination of memoir, science writing, and Indigenous American philosophy and history.

This book advocates the expansion of blue-carbon ecosystems (mangroves, seagrass meadows, and salt marshes) into macroalgal beds, tidal flats, coral reefs, and urbanized shallow waters, demonstrating the potential of these ecosystems as new carbon sinks.

Dynamic Sedimentary Environments of Mangrove Coasts provides knowledge on the importance of sedimentary dynamics in managing mangrove forests.

This book presents a solutions based approach to reducing and removing CO2 from the atmosphere transforming it into solid (crystalline) CaCO3 through the ability of marine organisms such as molluscs, crustacea, corals, and coccolithophore algae.

This book is the most lavishly illustrated account of oceans and islands ever published in a single volume. It contains more than 400 full-colour photographs and paintings. The first half of the book, 'Secrets of the seas', takes you on a guided tour of the living ocean.

Published for the first time, in this volume is a unique Pictorial History, Guide and General reference of the Exploration Beneath South African Seas by South African skindivers, including all recreational, commercial, exploratory and scientific aspects of diving.

This report contains the detailed scientific findings two years of research. We intend that it should have a wide distribution among the scientific community and those with a special interest in the fisheries and limnology of the African Great Lakes.

The book pays tribute to the pioneering work done by the late Dr Derek Gray and those supporting him in the early days of the Science Expo. The vision and tenacity to start and push forward such an ambitious programme is testament to a serious personal conviction to succeed and be of service to others and society.

Thingvallavatn is like a jewel of Iceland, sparking with natural beauty and with the glory of history too. It is a place of contrast and harmony and wonder,a showpiece of the Earth's creativity which reveals to us how Iceland has been shaped and formed in both a scientific and humanistic sense.

This volume is a comprehensive, fully illustrated Catalogue of the Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras of the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean, encompassing FAO Fishing Area 47.

This volume is a comprehensive, fully illustrated Catalogue of the Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras of the Southeastern Atlantic Ocean, encompassing FAO Fishing Area 47.

This is a worldwide catalogue of the family Merlucciidae. Two subfamilies, Macruroninae and Merlucciinae, are recognized comprising four genera, Lyconodes, Lyconus, Macruronus and Merluccius, and 18 species.

This is the first volume of the entirely rewritten, revised and updated version of the original FAO Catalogue of Cephalopods of the World (1984). The present Volume is a multiauthored compilation that reviews six families.

This is the second volume of the entirely rewritten, revised and updated version of the original FAO Catalogue of Cephalopods of the World (1984).

This is the third in the FAO series of worldwide annotated and illustrated catalogues of major groups of organisms that enter marine fisheries.