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Life in the Open Ocean: The Biology of Pelagic Species
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ISBN：
9781119840305
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中图分类号：
P7
中文译名：
公海中的生命：远洋物种的生物学
作者：
Joseph J. Torres
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英语
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出版社：
Wiley
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出版年：
2022
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1
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No book currently available treats all of the major animal groupsmaking up the swimmers and drifters of the open sea and their manyfascinating characteristics. This book will provide a descriptionof the animals themselves and explain how they are adapted to livein the open ocean environment. Most of the planet earth (over 60% of it) is deep ocean. Withinthe oceanic realm are two basic ecosystems, the ocean bottom, atwo-dimensional environment containing creatures that creep, crawl,burrow, or lie in wait for prey, and the immense, three-dimensionalpelagic region that lies above it, the largest living space on theplanet, containing the swimmers and drifters. The deep ocean bottomhas been the focus of a lot of excitement over the last 25 years,with many expeditions to the fabulous communities inhabiting thehydrothermal vents at our planets oceanic ridges. Just asfascinating are the communities of marine animals that inhabit theoceans pelagic realm, and the creatures adaptationsto an environment devoid of barriers to movement inthree-dimensional space. Many people are familiar with the termplankton, the tiny plants and animals that drift withthe ocean currents. More are familiar with the large pelagicspecies such as tuna, sharks, and swordfish, not only from picturesor fishing trips, but from the dinner table. The large, highlycapable swimming species like tuna and sharks are termednekton. In between the tiny drifters and the strongswimmers are an entire community of animals that are familiarmainly to oceanographers but are the critical link between thesmall and the large. Animals in the intermediate community are notas capable at swimming as the tunas but are better at it than thesmall zooplankton. Collectively, the creatures are known as themicronekton and macrozooplankton and they make up one of thelargest animal communities on the planet.The micronekton and macrozooplankton include a variety ofdifferent animal groups. Several different families of fishes arerepresented, many with unusual adaptations such as light organslike fireflies, huge gapes to allow them to swallow prey largerthan themselves, and large tubular eyes. Among the invertebratesare crustaceans that can produce clouds of biological light or liveinside jellyfishes. Among the jellies are species larger than ameter across and those that can double their population size in amatter of days by reproducing asexually.To find out about these diverse groups of organisms students andinstructors need to access many sources. The intent of this book isto gather the information that is available on the wide array oftaxa making up the community and present it as one cohesive whole.The book will cover the physical environment, the differenttaxonomic groups, how they make a living, their specialadaptations, their global distribution, and changes in thecommunities with latitude. No existing work treats the diversemicronekton assemblage as a community. In particular, informationon the invertebrate groups is quite diffuse, restricted to keys ortechnical journals. The micronektonic fishes are far betterdescribed, but the books deal only with fishes. It is time for asynthesis of the information available on the biology of all thegroups you will see if you tow a net between the surface and 1000m. When you bring the net up and look at your catch, you will belooking at a community of co-existing species. Each group has itsown way of solving the problems posed by nature, making forwonderful comparisons. This book will combine basic informationabout the different animal groups as well as their differentstrategies for solving natures challenges.
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