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A sea of glass : searching for the Blaschkas fragile legacy in an ocean at risk /
"From diving for dangerous jellyfish in the Mediterranean to searching for harpoon-backed sea slugs in Southeast Asia, A Sea of Glass recounts the author's quest to document the living invertebrates that inspired history's greatest father-son glassmaking team to spin their likenesses...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Organisms and environments ;
13. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Quest for the living Blaschka animals
- Anemones and corals: the rooted lives of at-risk animals
- Jellyfish: rise of the medusa
- Worms: ecosystem engineers undercover
- Sea slugs: fire stealers of the deep
- Octopus and squid: shape-shifters under pressure
- Sea stars: keystone species in glass
- The voyage of our Blaschka biodiversity
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: primer on the Blaschka Tree of Life.