Ocean Drifters: A Secret World Beneath the Waves by Kirby, Richard R.

Ocean Drifters: A Secret World Beneath the Waves (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781554079827)

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Ocean Drifters: A Secret World Beneath the Waves by Kirby, Richard R.

Ocean Drifters: A Secret World Beneath the Waves

$29.95
Ocean Drifters: A Secret World Beneath the Waves by Kirby, Richard R.

Ocean Drifters: A Secret World Beneath the Waves

$29.95
Format: Hardcover
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"Beasts that look as if they come from a science-fiction movie."
-- The Times (UK)

Beneath the waves lies a hidden microcosm of life: the world of plankton. These microscopic algae and the tiny animals that eat them float freely in the sunlit surface of the sea, where they underpin the whole marine food chain, provide the world with oxygen, and play an essential role in the global carbon cycle. Richard Kirby's high-magnification photographs and informative text bring out the beauty and variety of forms in the plankton, and explain how global change and rising sea temperatures are affecting this complex world with ramifications for the ecology of our entire planet.



Author: Richard R. Kirby
ISBN-10: 1554079829
ISBN-13: 9781554079827
Publisher: Firefly Books
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2011
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.50lbs
Size: 9.10h x 9.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/17/2011
Booklist 01/01/2012 pg. 24
By Richard R. Kirby
By Richard R. Kirby
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Dr. Richard Kirby is a molecular geneticist who has worked in the U.S. at the Hopkins Marine Station in California and the Belle W. Baruch Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences in South Carolina. He currently holds a Royal Society Research Fellowship at the University of Plymouth in the UK.

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