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Ocean drifters: a secret world beneath the waves
Ocean drifters: a secret world beneath the waves
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Kirby, Richard R
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Firefly Books
Publication Date
2011.
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English
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Oliver La Farge - Adult
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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.
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9781554079827
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