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• Title:The marine world : a natural history of ocean life / Frances Dipper ; illustrated by Marc Dando.
  
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• Variant Title:Natural history of ocean life
  
• Author/Creator:Dipper, Frances, 1951- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Dando, Marc, illustrator.
  
• Published/Created:Ithaca, New York : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press, 2017.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QH541.5.S3 D57 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Marine ecology.
  Marine sciences.
  Oceanography.
  
• Medical Subjects: Oceanography
  
• Description:544 pages : illustrations (chielfy color), color maps ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"For everyone with an interest in the ocean, such as marine biologists, students, naturalists, and divers. Encompasses organisms that live in, on, and around the ocean. Includes color illustrations, line drawings, and over 1,500 color photographs, and information on identification, distribution, structure, biology, ecology, classification, and conservation"--Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2016 by Wild Nature Press"--Title page verso.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781501709890 (hardcover alkaline paper)
  1501709895 (hardcover alkaline paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I PHYSICAL OCEAN
  Ocean Research
  Going down
  From the surface
  Satellites
  Marine Environment
  Light
  Salinity
  Density and viscosity
  Water pressure
  Dissolved gases and acidity
  Sea temperature
  Ocean currents
  Tides
  Waves
  main divisions of the marine environment
  pt. II LIVING OCEAN
  Environments and Ecosystems
  Open water (pelagic environments)
  Seabed (benthic environments)
  Sea shore (intertidal)
  Sublittoral
  Deep seabed
  pt. III MARINE LIFE
  Ocean Life
  Distribution of ocean life
  Past ocean life: marine fossils
  Classification
  Bacteria and Archaea
  Marine Plants and Chromists
  Seaweeds (macroalgae)
  Marine microalgae
  Marine flowering plants
  Marine Fungi
  Lichens
  Protozoa
  Microanimals
  Comb jellies
  Arrow worms
  Water bears
  Gastrotrichs
  Goblet worms
  Rotifers
  Placozoans
  Cycliophorans
  Sponges
  Cnidarians
  Hydroids
  Jellyfish
  Soft corals and sea fans (Octocorals)
  Stony corals and anemones (Hexacorals)
  Annelid Worms
  Polychaetes
  Oligochaetes
  Leeches
  Other Worms
  Flatworms
  Ribbon worms
  Nematodes
  Peanut worms
  Spoon worms
  Cephalorhyncha
  Phoronids
  Xenacoelomorpha
  Molluscs
  Gastropods
  Bivalves
  Cephalopods
  Chitons
  Minor molluscs
  Brachiopods
  Arthropods
  Horseshoe crabs and sea spiders
  Crustaceans
  Bryozoans
  Echinoderms
  Starfish
  Brittlestars
  Sea urchins
  Sea cucumbers
  Featherstars
  Hemichordates
  Chordates
  Non-vertebrate chordates
  Marine Fishes
  Jawless fishes
  Cartilaginous fishes
  Ray-finned fishes
  Lobe-finned fishes
  Marine Reptiles
  Crocodiles
  Sea turtles
  Sea snakes
  Marine Iguana
  Marine Mammals / Robert Irving
  Whales and dolphins
  Dugong and manatees
  Seals and Walrus
  Marine otters
  Polar Bear
  Marine Birds / Marianne Taylor
  Seabirds
  Waders
  Marine wildfowl
  Other marine birds
  Interrelationships
  Defence, attack and camouflage
  Symbiosis
  Marine Protected Areas
  Ocean sanctuaries
  Marine reserves
  Marine parks
  Appendices
  Appendix I Organisations and recording schemes
  Appendix II Metric and imperial measurements and SI units
  Appendix III Prefixes and suffixes.