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Freshwater Life (Collins Pocket Guide) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Malcolm Greenhalgh, Denys Ovenden
Publisher: Collins
Category: Book
List Price: £20.00
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 26657
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0007177771
Dewey Decimal Number: 570
EAN: 9780007177776
ASIN: 0007177771
Publication Date: March 5, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Excellent guide May 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unlike many Collins wildlife guides that use photographs (always a bad idea) this is fully illustrated throughout to a very high standard. My only reservation is that it contains only a limited number of fish species.
Almost perfect - nothing better on a market March 8, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
An excellent guide I have been waiting long time for. I will be recommending it to all my students as a basic book for field excursions. But nothing is perfect: I miss that eggs/clutches/cocoons of neither group are not depicted as one readily finds this sort of evidence that something lives in a pond/stream.
Also, the variety of dipteran larvae is not shown with the same extensity as those of other groups although they are far the most species rich group of insects living in freshwater habitats. However, their selection in the guide is still very satisfactory for a freswater enthusiast. Regarding the planktonic microlife, i.e. when you need a microscope to appreciate the beauty of freshwater organisms from your plankton net, you will need another guide (I wish there would be some at this entry level); this book takes the plankton just marginally. But, for what it claims it is, i.e. what you can see by naked eye, it is a gem.
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