Lost Antarctica
Adventures in a Disappearing Land
(Sprache: Englisch)
Hidden between the ice and snow of Antarctica is a world unlike any other. In this closely observed account, leading marine ecologist James McClintock gives us an unprecedented look at the ravages of the polar environment. This is a highly original and...
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Hidden between the ice and snow of Antarctica is a world unlike any other. In this closely observed account, leading marine ecologist James McClintock gives us an unprecedented look at the ravages of the polar environment. This is a highly original and distinctive look at a mysterious world before it disappears forever.
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Few of us will ever get to Antarctica. The bitter cold and three months a year without sunlight makes the sixth continent virtually uninhabitable for humans. Yet marine biologist James B. McClintock has spent three decades studying the frozen land in order to understand better the world that lies beneath it. In this luminous and closely observed account, one of the world's leading experts on Antarctica introduces the reader to this fascinating world - the extraordinary wildlife that persists despite the harsh conditions and the way each of the pieces fit into the puzzle of the intricate environment: from single-celled organisms to baleen whales, with leopard seals, penguins, 50-foot algae, sea spiders, coral, and multicolored sea stars, in between. Now, as temperatures rise, the fragile ecosystem is under attack. Adélie penguins that have successfully nested on Antarctic islands for several hundred years have been nearly wiped out. King crabs that used to populate the deep seafloor are moving into shallower waters, disturbing the set order of life there. Lost Antarctica is an appeal to understand and appreciate the wondrous place at the bottom of the world that we are on the brink of losing.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Lost Antarctica “
Journeys SouthIt is All About the Ice
Life Adrift: The Small Organisms Matter
Antarctic Seafloor: An Oasis in the Desert
Polar Acid Seas
The March of the King Crabs
Ghost Rookeries: The Decline of the Adélie Penguin
Closing the Gap: Antarctica as a Global Solution
Autoren-Porträt von James McClintock
James B. McClintock is one of the world's foremost experts on Antarctica, and currently the Antarctic Marine Biologist Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. McClintock has appeared on local, national, and international public radio, CNN news, and the Weather Channel. He has been quoted in National Geographic Magazine , Discover Magazine , the Los Angeles Times , the Chicago Tribune , the Wall Street Journal , and others. McClintock Point , a piece of land on the north side of the entrance of Explorer's Cove on the Scott Coast of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, was named in honor of his research.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: James McClintock
- 2014, 256 Seiten, Maße: 15,5 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Education
- ISBN-10: 1137278889
- ISBN-13: 9781137278883
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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