| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxxi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206) and index. |
| Contents |
Cruise number 62, RV Atlantis II -- The desert sea. Characteristics -- The Sargasso as home -- Sargassum and associates -- The Sargasso breadbasket -- Migrants of the Sargasso. Eels, migrants for life -- Flights of small birds, the Sargasso's seasonal migrants -- Deep scattering layers, a daily migration -- Migrating fish of the DSL -- Dive number 346, DSRV Alvin. Living in want. The predatory life -- Life as prey -- Life on the desert sea floor -- Man and Sargasso -- A polluted Sargasso -- Food from the sea -- Cruise number 33, RV Knorr. |
| Subject |
Oceanography -- Sargasso Sea.
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Marine biology -- Sargasso Sea.
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Sargasso Sea.
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| Added Author |
Teal, Mildred, author.
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| ISBN |
0316843513 |
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