Enquiring Minds

The Enquiring Minds Group will discuss Marine Biology: A Very Short Introduction by Philip Mladenov (Oxford University Press, $11.95).   Mladenov provides a comprehensive overview of marine biology, offering a tour of marine life and marine processes that ranges from the polar oceans to tropical coral reefs, and from shoreline mollusks to deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Mladenov also looks at a number of factors that pose a significant threat to the marine environment and to many of its life forms-threats such as overfishing, coastal development, plastic pollution, oil spills, nutrient pollution, the spread of exotic species, and the emission of climate changing greenhouse gases. Throughout the book he successfully weaves around the principles of marine biology a discussion of the human impacts on the oceans and the threats these pose to our welfare.

Event date: 

Thursday, June 25, 2015 - 6:30pm
Marine Biology (Very Short Introductions) By Philip V. Mladenov Cover Image
$11.95
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ISBN: 9780199695058
Published: Oxford University Press, USA - October 1st, 2013

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