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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Harvell, C. Drew, 1954- author.     Subjects     Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895.     Blaschka, Rudolf, 1857-1939.     Marine biodiversity conservation.     Marine invertebrates.     Marine invertebrates -- Models.     Glass animals.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Harvell, C. Drew, 1954- author.       by title:      A sea of glass [elec...         MARC Display

A sea of glass [electronic resource] : searching for the Blaschkas fragile legacy in an ocean at risk / Drew Harvell. by Harvell, C. Drew, 1954- author. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] Subjects Blaschka, Leopold, 1822-1895.   Blaschka, Rudolf, 1857-1939.   Marine biodiversity conservation.   Marine invertebrates.   Marine invertebrates -- Models.   Glass animals. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=2595922 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=64de2f0f-d0f5-4684-9ba9-fa886d059291&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0438-1/{64DE2F0F-D0F5-4684-9BA9-FA886D059291}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780520961111 electronic bk. 0520961110 electronic bk. 9780520285682 0520285689 Series:  Organisms and environments ; 13. Description:  1 online resource. Contents:  Quest 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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