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Author
Kirby, Richard R.
Title
Ocean drifters : a secret world beneath the waves / Richard R. Kirby.
Publication Info.
Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2011.
©2010
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Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction
578.77 KIRBY
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New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction
578.77 K63
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Description
192 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-192) and index.
Contents
Phytoplankton -- Primary production -- Diatoms -- Smaller and smaller -- Graceful spirals -- Phytoplankton culture -- Algal blooms and the smell of the sea -- Coccolithophores and chalk cliffs -- Dinoflagellates -- Harmful phytoplankton -- A mixed diet -- Acantharea and their zooxanthellae -- Zooplankton -- Holozooplankton -- Plankton biodiversity -- Copepod aggregations -- Escaping predation -- Finding a mate -- Copepod reproduction -- The copepod life cycle -- Sea lice -- Euphausiids -- Mysids -- Human relatives -- Water fleas -- Hyperiids -- Sea butterflies -- Sea angels -- Arrow worms -- Planktonic paddlers -- Siphonophores -- Comb jellies -- By-the-wind sailors -- Merozooplankton -- Adaptations to life -- Crab larvae -- Life lower down -- Voracious predators -- The plankton year -- Fisheries -- Vision -- Insect relatives -- Barnacle larvae -- Biofouling -- Fascinating factotecta -- Young jellyfish -- Moon jellyfish -- Mini stinging predators -- Jet propulsion -- One and the same -- Sea urchins -- Heart urchins -- Brittle stars -- Sea bed hunters -- Born to be different -- Settling down -- Sea cucumber auricularia larvae -- Sea cucumber pentacula larvae -- Acorn worms - Horseshoe worms - Moss animals -- Ribbon worms -- Worm metatrochophores -- Bristling with bristles -- Spionid polychaete -- Parchment worms -- Life in a tube -- Spaghetti worms -- Magelonids -- Snail veliger larvae -- The ballad of the veliger -- Juvenile bivalves -- Fish eggs -- Young fish -- Remarkable metamorphosis -- Eyeing up the plankton -- Death and decay -- Changing sea temperature -- Summing up.
Subject
Marine plankton.
Marine plankton -- Pictorial works.
ISBN
9781554079827: $29.95
1554079829
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