Marine World (eBook)

A Natural History of Ocean Life

Frances Dipper (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
544 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23244-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Marine World is a book for everyone with an interest in the ocean, from the marine biologist or student wanting expert knowledge of a particular group to the naturalist or diver exploring the seashore and beyond.With colour illustrations, line drawings, more than 1,500 colour photographs, and with clear accessible text, this book encompasses all those organisms that live in, on and around the ocean, bringing together in a single text everything from the minuscule to the immense. It includes sections on all but the most obscure marine groups, covering invertebrate phyla from sponges to sea squirts, as well as plants, fungi, bacteria, fish, reptiles, mammals and birds. It incorporates information on identification, distribution, structure, biology, ecology, classification and conservation of each group, addressing the questions of 'what?', 'where?' and 'how?'.Today global warming, overfishing, ocean acidification and pollution are just a few of the ever increasing number of threats and challenges faced by ocean life. Without knowledge of the animals, plants and other organisms that live in the marine world, we cannot hope to support or implement successful conservation and management measures, nor truly appreciate the incredible wealth and variety of marine life.The Marine World is the product of a lifetime spent by Frances Dipper happily observing and studying marine organisms the world over. It has been brought to colourful life by a myriad of enthusiastic underwater photographers and by Marc Dando, the renowned natural history illustrator.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Wild Nature Press
• Reihe/Serie: Wild Nature Press
• Zusatzinfo: 1500+ color illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Acanthaster planci • Acanthochaenus luetkenii • Acanthurus leucosternon • Acipenseriformes • Actinopterygii • Agnatha • Amphipoda • anchovy • Ascidiacea • Bacteria • Baleen whale • barnacle • Barreleye • Bathymodiolus • Bathynomus giganteus • Bathypterois grallator • Bivalvia • Bolbometodon muricatum • box jellyfish • Brachionus plicatilis • Brittle star • Brown Algae • Bryozoa • Bull shark • bycatch • Calliactis parasitica • Calonectris diomedea • Cephalopod • Cephalorhynchus commersonii • Cetacea • Chaetognatha • Chiton • Chondrichthyes • Cleaner shrimp • Cnidaria • Colossendeis megalonyx • Copepod • coral reef • Corollospora maritima • crinoid • crustacean • Dascyllus reticulatus • Deep sea • Didemnum vexillum • dinoflagellate • dorsal fin • Dugesia subtentaculata • Dugong • Echinoderm • elasmobranchs • Entelurus aequoreus • Eretmochelys imbricata • Erignathus barbatus • Feresa attenuata • Filter Feeder • fish • fishery • flatworm • Gaidropsarus mediterraneus • Gastropoda • Giant tube worm • Gill slit • Gollum attenuatus • Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae • great white shark • grouper • hagfish • Hapalochlaena lunulata • Heliopora coerulea • Hydrophiinae • Hydrozoa • Invertebrate • Ipmoea pes-caprae • Isopoda • Jassa falcata • Jellyfish • Kajikia albida • Katsuwonus pelamis • killer whale • Krill • Labidiaster annulatus • Lagenorhynchus acutus • lancelet • larva • Latimeria menadoensis • Liparometra regalis • Lophelia • Lugworm • Mallotus villosus • Mangrove • mantis shrimp • Marine Biology • Marine iguana • Metasepia pfefferi • Micromesistius poutassou • Mussel • Narcine brasiliensis • Negombata magnifica • Neophocaena phocaenoides • nutrient • Odontodactylus scyllarus • Omalosecosa ramulosa • Ophiopholis aculeata • Orange roughy • organism • Ostracod • Pachyptila vittata • Pagophilus groenlandicus • Parablennius gattorugine • Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning • Pearlfish • pelagic fish • Phoronid • Phytoplankton • pinniped • Plankton • polychaete • Polymixiomorpha • Polyp • Pyura spinifera • Radula • Raja clavata • Rocky Shore • Sanopus splendidus • Scotoplanes globosa • seabed • seabird • Sea Cucumber • seagrass • sea otter • Sea slug • Seasonal hotspots • Sea Urchin • seawater • Seaweed • Sediment • Sepioteuthis sepioidea • Shrimp • Sperm • Spiny lobster • Staurocalyptus • Sulidae • Swellshark • Swim bladder • tentacle • Tetraodontidae • Thalassina • tunicate • wader • Whale Shark • Zooplankton • Zooxanthellae
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23244-X / 069123244X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23244-7 / 9780691232447