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The rise of marine mammals : 50 million years of evolution
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ISBN: 1421423251 142142326X 9781421423265 9781421423258 Year: 2017 Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland Johns Hopkins University Press

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"Marine mammals have long captured the attention of humans. Ancient peoples etched seals and dolphins on the walls of Paleolithic caves; today, engineers develop microprocessors to track these denizens of the deep. This groundbreaking book from highly respected marine mammal paleontologist Annalisa Berta delves into the story of the extraordinary adaptations that gave the world these amazing animals. The Rise of Marine Mammals reveals remarkable fossil record discoveries that shed light on the origins, relationships, and diversification of marine mammals. Focusing on evolution and paleobiology, Berta provides an overview of marine mammal species diversity, enhanced with gorgeous life restorations by Carl Buell, Robert Boessenecker, William Stout, and Ray Troll and extensive line drawings by graphics editor James L. Sumich. The book also considers ongoing conservation challenges, demonstrating how the fossil record of adaptation in response to past environmental shifts may illuminate the way that marine mammals respond to global climate change. This invaluable evolutionary framework is essential for helping us understand how best to protect and conserve today's polar bears, whales, dolphins, seals, and fellow warm-blooded ocean dwellers. The Rise of Marine Mammals also describes exciting breakthroughs that rely on new techniques of study, including 3-D imaging, and molecular, finite element, and morphometric analyses, which have enhanced scientists' understanding of everything from the anatomy of fetal whales to the genes behind limb loss in cetaceans. Mammalogists, paleontologists, and marine scientists will find Berta's insights absorbing, while developmental and molecular biologists, geneticists, and ecologists exploring integrative research approaches will benefit from her fresh perspective."--Publisher's description.


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Animais do nosso mar
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ISBN: 9892614917 9892614909 Year: 2020 Publisher: Coimbra University Press

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The University of Coimbra, with more than 730 years of history, has a vast accumulated, material and immaterial heritage, which reflects all periods of history and scientific research in Portugal. The universal value of this immense collection, in particular of the biological collections and libraries, calls upon the University of Coimbra for the effort to preserve it, but also to disseminate and value it. In the conviction of knowledge to be of all and for all, we revise ourselves in the certainty that Open Science is indispensable to a more informed and more aware society of the Planet it inhabits, contributing to make it more human, more just and more democratic. The illustrations reproduced here were taken from several works kept by the library of the Department of Life Sciences of the University of Coimbra. Thus, it was also our purpose to make known the rich and wide collection of the University of Coimbra, using books for one of its purposes: learning and a taste for science.

Marine organisms. Genetics, ecology, and evolution

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Crustaceans
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ISBN: 1634849108 9781634849104 9781634848909 163484890X Year: 2016 Publisher: Hauppauge, New York

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Fauna and flora of St. Andrews bay.
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ISBN: 0701116056 Year: 1974 Publisher: Edinburgh Scottish academic press

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Marine faunal diversity in India : taxonomy, ecology and conservation
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ISBN: 012801962X 0128019484 9780128019627 9780128019481 Year: 2015 Publisher: London, England : Academic Press,

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More than 70% of the earth's surface is covered by water, making it an ideal and abundant resource for studying species diversity, faunal communities, and ecosystems. India's massive coastline (5,044 miles) means it plays a major role in housing these faunal communities. Of the 32 animal phyla, 15 are represented in India's marine ecosystem, covering more than 15,000 species. Marine and coastal ecosystems of India provide supporting services in the form of wide range of habitats. Major ecosystems such as estuaries, mangroves, coral reefs, lagoons, seaweeds and sea grasses serve as nurserie


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Pearls & parasites
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ISBN: 3736416199 Year: 2016 Publisher: Dinslaken : [Anboco],

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Handbook of the marine fauna of north-west Europe
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ISBN: 9780199549450 9780199549443 0199549451 0199549443 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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"This classic handbook for naturalists, students, and marine biologists has now been thoroughly updated in a new revised edition. Over the last twenty years, this has become the go-to reference for all those working in the field of marine biology, enabling rapid identification of all but the rarest species of benthic invertebrates and fish encountered around the shores of north-west Europe. It covers 1500 species from all major marine groups, includes occurrence and distribution for each species, provides user-friendly identification keys, and is illustrated throughout by more than 2000 high quality line drawings. [It also] provides an accessible and synoptic account of the marine fauna of north-west Europe, assisted by proven identification keys and clear line illustrations; incorporates the latest revisions to systematic groups; [and made] improvements ... to text and keys [which] will facilitate student tuition. The 'Handbook of the marine fauna of north-west Europe' is suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in marine ecology (particularly useful for fieldwork) as well as the many professional marine biologists, environmental scientists, and conservation biologists requiring a concise but authoritative overview of the topic of surveys, censures, and consultancy work."--Back cover.


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The marine fauna of the British isles and North-West Europe.
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ISBN: 0198575157 0198573561 9780198573562 9780198575153 Year: 1990 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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This is the second part of a comprehensive two-volume treatise that describes and illustrates over 2,000 marine species native to the coastal waters of the British Isles and north-western Europe.

Biology of benthic organisms.
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ISBN: 0080213782 1322209391 1483158632 Year: 1978 Publisher: Oxford Pergamon Press

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