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100	1		_aMladenov, Philip V.,
245	1	0	_aMarine biology : _ba very short introduction / _cPhilip V. Mladenov.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c2013.
300			_axvii, 156 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c18 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
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337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aVery short introductions ; _v354
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe marine environment -- Marine biological processes -- Life in the coastal ocean -- Polar marine biology -- Marine life in the tropics -- Deep-ocean biology -- Intertidal life -- Food from the oceans.
520			_aThe marine environment is the largest, most important, and yet most mysterious habitat on our planet. It contains more than 99% of the world's living space, produces half of its oxygen, plays a critical role in regulating its climate, and supports a remarkably diverse and exquisitely adapted array of life forms, from microscopic viruses, bacteria, and plankton to the largest existing animals. In this unique Very Short Introduction, biologist Philip Mladenov provides a comprehensive overview of marine biology, offering a tour of marine life and marine processes that ranges from the polar oceans to tropical coral reefs, and from shoreline mollusks to deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Mladenov also looks at a number of factors that pose a significant threat to the marine environment and to many of its life forms-threats such as overfishing, coastal development, plastic pollution, oil spills, nutrient pollution, the spread of exotic species, and the emission of climate changing greenhouse gases. Throughout the book he successfully weaves around the principles of marine biology a discussion of the human impacts on the oceans and the threats these pose to our welfare -- _cSource other than Library of Congress.
650		0	_aMarine biology.
830		0	_aVery short introductions ; _v354.
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