Plankton : wonders of the drifting world /
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| Author / Creator: | Sardet, Christian, author, translator. |
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| Uniform title: | Plancton. English |
| Imprint: | Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2015] ©2015 |
| Description: | 222 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy has original dust jacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10693240 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue, by Mark Ohman
- Introduction. Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World
- What Are Plankton?
- Plankton and Man
- The Origins: Life Shapes the Planet
- Explosions, Extinctions, and Evolution of Life in the Ocean
- A Chronological History of the Planet and the Tree of Life
- Taxonomy and Phylogeny: Hierarchical Categorizations
- Organisms of All Sizes, with Different Roles and Behavior
- Collecting and Identifying Plankton, Then and Now
- Plankton of the World
- Villefranche-sur-Mer, France: A Bay Famous for Its Plankton
- Between Ecuador and Galapagos: Tara Oceans Expedition
- South Carolina, United States: Salt Marsh Estuaries
- Izu Peninsula and Shimoda, Japan: Autumn Plankton
- Unicellular Creatures: From the Origins of Life
- Bacteria, Archaea, and Viruses: Invisible but Omnipresent
- Unicellular Protists: Precursors of Plants and Animals
- Phytoplankton
- Coccolithophores and Foraminifera: Limestone Architects
- Diatoms and Dinoflagellates: Silicate or Cellulose Houses
- Radiolarians: Polycystines and Acantharians: Symbiosis at the Ocean Surface
- Ciliates, Tintinnids, and Choanoflagellates: Motility and Multicellularity
- Ctenophores and Cnidarians: Ancestral Forms
- Ctenophores: Carnivorous Comb Jellies
- Jellyfish: Equipped to Survive
- Siphonophores: The Longest Animals in the World
- Velella, Porpita, and Physalia: Planktonic Sailors
- Crustaceans and Mollusks: Champions of Diversity
- Crustacean Larvae: Molting and Metamorphosis
- Copepods to Amphipods: Variations on a Theme
- Phronima: Monster in a Barrel
- Pteropods and Heteropods: Mollusks That Swim with Their Feet
- Cephalopods and Nudibranchs: Beautiful Colors and Camouflage
- Worms and Tadpoles: Arrows, Tubes, and Nets
- Chaetognaths: Arrows in the Oceans
- Polychaete Annelids: Worms in the Sea
- Salps, Doliolids, and Pyrosomes: Highly Evolved Gelatinous Animals
- Larvaceans: Tadpoles That Live in a Net
- Embryos and Larvae
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography, Websites
- Credits
- Index