Description |
xxxi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Cruise number 62, RV Atlantis II -- The desert sea. Characteristics -- The Sargasso as home -- Sargassum and associates -- The Sargasso breadbasket -- Migrants of the Sargasso. Eels, migrants for life -- Flights of small birds, the Sargasso's seasonal migrants -- Deep scattering layers, a daily migration -- Migrating fish of the DSL -- Dive number 346, DSRV Alvin. Living in want. The predatory life -- Life as prey -- Life on the desert sea floor -- Man and Sargasso -- A polluted Sargasso -- Food from the sea -- Cruise number 33, RV Knorr |
Notes |
"An Atlantic Monthly Press book." |
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Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 205-206 |
Subject |
Marine biology -- Sargasso Sea.
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Oceanography -- Sargasso Sea.
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SUBJECT |
Sargasso Sea. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85117562
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Author |
Morrill, Leslie.
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Teal, Mildred, author
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LC no. |
74034176 |
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