MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2015029740
003 DLC
005 20150909155256.0
008 150730t20162016cau b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2015029740
020 $a9780520285682 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $a0520285689 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 $z9780520961111 (ebook)
020 $z0520961110 (ebook)
040 $aCU-S/DLC$beng$erda$cCU-S
042 $apcc
050 00 $aQH91.8.B6$bH37 2016
082 00 $a333.95/616$223
100 1 $aHarvell, C. Drew,$d1954-$eauthor.
245 12 $aA sea of glass :$bsearching for the Blaschkas fragile legacy in an ocean at risk /$cDrew Harvell.
263 $a1605
264 1 $aOakland, California :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[2016]
264 4 $c©2016
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aOrganisms and Environments ;$v13
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aQuest for the living Blaschka animals -- Anemones and corals: the rooted lives of at-risk animals -- Jellyfish: 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: primer on the Blaschka Tree of Life.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aMarine biodiversity conservation.
650 0 $aMarine invertebrates.
650 0 $aMarine invertebrates$xModels.
650 0 $aGlass animals.
600 10 $aBlaschka, Leopold,$d1822-1895.
600 10 $aBlaschka, Rudolf,$d1857-1939.
830 0 $aOrganisms and environments ;$v13.