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"How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life"--

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"How Japanese coastal residents and transnational conservationists collaborated to foster relationships between humans and sea life"--

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Offers a college-level introduction to marine science. This title explores early scientific knowledge of oceans, photosynthesis, trophic interactions and energy flow, and the impacts of human activities on marine and atmospheric systems. It includes color illustrations and informative diagrams.

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With the advent of computers, novel instruments, satellite technology, and increasingly powerful modeling tools, we know more about the ocean than ever before. Yet we also have a new generation of oceanographers who have become increasingly distanced from the object of their study. Ever fewer scientists collect the observational data on which they

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Provides a theoretical framework upon which graduate students and upper-level undergraduates can formulate an understanding of processes that control mean concentration and distribution of biologically utilized elements and compounds in ocean. In this book, the chapters provide an introductory overview of biogeochemical and physical oceanography.

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Illustrated with drawings, this guide helps naturalists identify various life forms of the intertidal zone along the Pacific coastline. Preceded by a discussion about this environment and its creatures.

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Rivers are essential to every aspect of civilization, yet how many understand how they work Fleming takes readers on a journey along our planet's waterways, providing a scientist's reflections on the profound interrelationships that rivers have with landscapes, ecosystems, and societies.

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For history buffs, conservationists, armchair travelers, tourists planning a trip, and anyone who simply loves first-rate nature photography, this beautiful book more than meets the high standard readers have come to expect from National Geographic.

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Explore the importance of our oceans through 50 key topics, each concisely explained by a team of experts.

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Provides an in-depth background to the whole ecosystem of sea ice, its living communities and the structure of the ice itself. The author is a veteran of six expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic, and this book is packed with photographs taken in the course of his journeys.

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Ellis's research has taken him all over the world, from Nantucket to Patagonia. Now, with more than 450 of his own illustrations, he takes readers from A to Z (abalone to zooxanthelae) in this one unprecedented volume of the sea. of color paintings. 471 illustrations.