Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- A Perspective: Past, Present, and Future -- 1. ECOLOGY OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY -- How Salty Is the Water? -- Typical Habitats of the Bay and Its Tributaries -- Classification of Animals and Plants -- 2. SAND BEACHES -- Plants along the Upper Beach -- Dwellers on the Beach -- Signs of Life -- Birds of the Beach -- Ancient Relics of the Sea -- Shell Guide -- 3. INTERTIDAL FLATS -- Plant Life on the Flats -- Roamers over the Flats -- The World beneath the Intertidal Muds -- Waders and Pickers on the Flats -- 4. PIERS, ROCKS, AND JETTIES -- Barnacles -- Bugs of the Pilings -- Worms on the Pilings -- Sea Squirts and the Like -- Mussels -- Sponges -- Sea Anemones -- Hydroids-Feathery Animals -- Whip Coral -- Skeleton Shrimps -- Bryozoans -- Termites of the Sea -- Aerial Gleaners -- 5. SHALLOW WATERS -- Fishes -- Plankton Soup -- Insects of the Shallows -- Crustaceans of the Shallows -- Clams of the Shallows -- Snails of Fresher Waters -- Arks of the Lower Bay -- Birds of the Shallows -- Turtles and Snakes -- 6. SEAGRASS MEADOWS AND WEED BEDS -- Underwater Plants -- Seagrass Meadows -- Weed Beds of the Upper Bay -- 7. WETLANDS -- Tidal Freshwater Marshes -- Salt Marshes -- The Maritime Forest -- Forested Wetlands -- Insects of the Wetlands -- Birds of the Wetlands -- Mammals of the Marshes -- 8. OYSTER BARS -- The Famous Oyster -- Life in, on, and among the Oysters -- Crabs and Other Crustaceans -- Mollusks of the Oyster Community -- Fishes -- 9. DEEPER, OPEN WATERS -- Dwellers on the Bottom -- Dwellers in the Bottom -- Creatures of the Open Waters -- Fishes of the Open Waters -- Marine Mammals and Sea Turtles of the |