Praise for the first edition:

"More than a picture book ... Hoyt's elegant writing provides both the historical background for deep-sea exploration and an ecological perspective on life in the ocean's depths."
-- American Scientist

"A magnificent bestiary ... and a reminder of how little we actually know about the seas surrounding us."
-- Popular Science

Winner, Outstanding Nonfiction Book of the Year
-- American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc., New York

In this updated and expanded edition of Creatures of the Deep, award-winning nature and science writer Erich Hoyt gives readers a glimpse of the amazing variety of creatures found in the deepest parts of the ocean. Weaving together details from the latest scientific research about sharks, giant squid, dragonfish, huge tube worms, clams and tiny microbes of the deep-sea vents, Hoyt embarks on a magical journey roaming across the abyssal plains and descending into deep-sea trenches more than 20,000 feet down.

Hoyt unravels the complex predator-prey relationships, from "killer" copepods to battles between giant squid and sperm whales, presenting compelling portraits of animals that are superbly adapted denizens of a dark high-pressure world. There are life forms, independent of sunlight and photosynthesis, which flourish around the hot, sulfurous deep-sea vents in the magnificent rift valley of the mid-ocean ridge, the world's longest mountain range. Surviving in conditions that appear to be close to the very soup of primordial Earth, these microbes have become the basis for the latest research into Earth's origins. Fully illustrated with fantastic underwater imagery.



Autorentext

by Erich Hoyt



Inhalt

Author's Note
Prologue
Part One

    Down Through the Layers
    The Layers of the Sea
    Surface Waters: The Epipelagic (Euphotic) Zone
    Middle Waters: The Mesopelagic (Disphotic) Zone
    Deep Waters: The Bathypelagic (Aphotic) Zone
    Deeper Waters: The Abyssopelagic Zone
    Deepest Waters: The Hadal Zone
Part Two
    A Fish-Eat-Fish World
    Planktonic Dramas
    The Cosmopolitan Copepod
    Jellyfish: Biding Time
    Big Sharks: The Plankton-Strainers
    Dancing with Squid
    Big Sharks: The Flesh-Eaters
    Killer Whale vs. Shark
    Down Deep with Dragonfish
    The Web
Part Three
    Trekking Down the Ridge
    The Longest Mountain Chain in the World
    The World Ocean Floor
    Creatures in the Sulfur Garden
    Farther Along the Ridge and Back in Time
    Black Smokers and New Life-Forms
    Life Among the Archaeans
Part Four
    Counting the Citizens of the Sea
    The Census of Marine Life
    Finding a Place for Ocean Citizens to Live
    Deciding on the Kind of Ocean We Want or Life Among the Jellyfish
Epilogue
Sources and Resources
Index
Photo Credits

Titel
Creatures of the Deep
Untertitel
In Search of the Sea's Monsters and the World They Live In
EAN
9781770855588
ISBN
978-1-77085-558-8
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
09.10.2014
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
24.24 MB
Anzahl Seiten
288
Jahr
2014
Untertitel
Englisch
Auflage
Second Edition, Updated and Expanded