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A sea of glass
C. Drew Harvell
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A sea of glass

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"From diving for dangerous jellyfish in the Mediterranean to searching for harpoon-backed sea slugs in Southeast Asia, A Sea of Glass recounts the author's quest to document the living invertebrates that inspired history's greatest father-son glassmaking team to spin their likenesses into glass more than 160 years ago. The story of these artists, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, whose menagerie of unusual marine creatures was packed away for decades in a Cornell University storage unit, provides a time capsule of life in earlier oceans untouched by climate change and human impacts. A Sea of Glass takes readers into a world rarely glimpsed, introducing the surprising and unusual biology of some of the most ancient animals on the tree of life. On the way, we glimpse a century of change in our ocean ecosystems and learn which of the Blaschkas's living counterparts are indeed as fragile as glass"--Provided by publisher.

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English
Pages
215

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Subjects
Marine invertebrates, In art, Glass animals, Catalogs, Cornell University. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Models, Marine biodiversity conservation, Cornell University, Biodiversity conservation
People
Leopold Blaschka (1822-1895), Rudolf Blaschka (1857-1939)

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Table of Contents

Introduction: The quest for the living Blaschka animals
Anemones and corals : rooted lives of at-risk animals
Jellyfish : the rise of the medusa
Worms : ecosystem engineers undercover
Sea slugs : fire stealers of the deep
Octopus and squid : shape-shifters under pressure
Sea stars : keystone species in glass
The voyage of our Blaschka biodiversity
Acknowledgments
Appendix: A primer on the Blaschka Tree of Life.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index.

Series
Organisms and Environments -- 13, Organisms and environments -- 13.

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Dewey Decimal Class
333.95/616
Library of Congress
QH91.8.B6 H37 2016, QH91.8.B6H37 2016

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Pagination
xi, 215 pages
Number of pages
215

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27209890M
ISBN 10
0520285689
ISBN 13
9780520285682
LCCN
2015029740
OCLC/WorldCat
918762602
Wikidata
Q114635674
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B01DMZV0M6

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