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A day in the life of Jenny Jellyfish and her friends includes being beached by a storm.
Author : Suzanne Tate
Publisher : Nags Head Art, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781878405302
A day in the life of Jenny Jellyfish and her friends includes being beached by a storm.
Author : Ann Herriges
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 12,15 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1612111378
"Simple text and supportive images introduce beginning readers to jellyfish. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Kelly Doudna
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599284871
Jenny Jellyfish wins the starring role in her school play. Alternating pages provide facts about jellyfish.
Author :
Publisher : Nags Head Art, Inc.
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9781878405517
Author : Suzanne Tate
Publisher : Nags Head Art, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780961634469
Tempted by a tantalizing worm, a little Spot fish remembers his teacher's warning: "Just say no to worms" and saves himself from being "hooked."
Author : Suzanne Tate
Publisher : Nags Head Art, Inc.
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780961634476
A story about the amazing life of an oyster and how a pearl is formed.
Author : Juli Berwald
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0735211280
"A book full of wonders" —Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk "Witty, insightful. . . .The story of jellyfish. . . is a significant part of the environmental story. Berwald's engaging account of these delicate, often ignored creatures shows how much they matter to our oceans' future." —New York Times Book Review Jellyfish have been swimming in our oceans for well over half a billion years, longer than any other animal that lives on the planet. They make a venom so toxic it can kill a human in three minutes. Their sting—microscopic spears that pierce with five million times the acceleration of gravity—is the fastest known motion in the animal kingdom. Made of roughly 95 percent water, some jellies are barely perceptible virtuosos of disguise, while others glow with a luminescence that has revolutionized biotechnology. Yet until recently, jellyfish were largely ignored by science, and they remain among the most poorly understood of ocean dwellers. More than a decade ago, Juli Berwald left a career in ocean science to raise a family in landlocked Austin, Texas, but jellyfish drew her back to the sea. Recent, massive blooms of billions of jellyfish have clogged power plants, decimated fisheries, and caused millions of dollars of damage. Driven by questions about how overfishing, coastal development, and climate change were contributing to a jellyfish population explosion, Juli embarked on a scientific odyssey. She traveled the globe to meet the biologists who devote their careers to jellies, hitched rides on Japanese fishing boats to see giant jellyfish in the wild, raised jellyfish in her dining room, and throughout it all marveled at the complexity of these alluring and ominous biological wonders. Gracefully blending personal memoir with crystal-clear distillations of science, Spineless is the story of how Juli learned to navigate and ultimately embrace her ambition, her curiosity, and her passion for the natural world. She discovers that jellyfish science is more than just a quest for answers. It’s a call to realize our collective responsibility for the planet we share.
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division
Publisher :
Page : 1436 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : J.E. Purcell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401007225
`Jellyfish', a group that includes scyphomedusae, hydromedusae, siphonophores and ctenophores, are important zooplankton predators throughout the world's estuaries and oceans. These beautiful creatures have come to public attention as featured exhibits in aquaria and in news headlines as invaders and as providers of genes used in biomedical research. Nevertheless, jellyfish are generally considered to be nuisances because they interfere with human activities by stinging swimmers, clogging power plant intakes and nets of fishermen and fish farms, and competing with fish and eating fish eggs and larvae. There is concern that environmental changes such as global warming, eutrophication, and over-fishing may result in increased jellyfish populations. The literature reviews and research papers in this volume explore the interactions between jellyfish and humans. Papers cover the medical aspects of jellyfish stings, jellyfish as human food and jellyfish fisheries, interactions of jellyfish and fish, effects of environmental changes on jellyfish, effects of introduced ctenophores on the Black Sea ecosystem, factors causing increases or concentrations of jellyfish, and others aspects of jellyfish ecology. This is an important reference for students and professional marine biologists, oceanographers, fishery scientists, and aquarists.