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Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World de Christian Sardet

Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World

Autor Christian Sardet
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 iun 2015

Apreciem în lucrarea Plankton o abordare care transformă rigoarea științifică într-o experiență vizuală imersivă, pornind de la aplicabilitatea practică a plonctonului ca fundament al lanțului trofic acvatic și reglator climatic global. Suntem de părere că această ediție publicată de University of Chicago Press reușește să scoată din anonimat organismele care constituie 95% din biomasa oceanică, oferind detalii despre mecanismele biologice ale ctenoforilor, crustaceelor și moluștelor. Din punct de vedere vizual, cele 550 de planșe color utilizează macrofotografia pentru a evidenția structuri altfel invizibile, de la inimi microscopice protejate de învelișuri gelatinoase până la lanțuri fosforescente, totul proiectat pe un negru profund care facilitează studiul morfologic.

Textul este organizat meticulos, începând cu o perspectivă istorică asupra evoluției vieții și continuând cu o cartografiere taxonomică ce clarifică distincțiile dintre bacterii, protiste și fitoplancton. Christian Sardet include capitole dedicate unor expediții celebre, precum Tara Oceans, oferind date concrete din diverse ecosisteme marine, de la estuarele din Carolina de Sud până la apele Japoniei. Merită menționat că volumul completează perspectiva oferită de The Wonders of Marine Plankton, adăugând o dimensiune estetică superioară și o documentare fotografică de teren mult mai vastă, transformând un subiect tehnic într-un reper pentru hidrobiologie. De asemenea, spre deosebire de abordarea fizico-chimică din Oceanography, lucrarea de față se concentrează pe diversitatea morfologică și pe rolul cultural al acestor „păduri subacvatice”, fiind o resursă esențială atât pentru cercetători, cât și pentru entuziaștii biologiei marine.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226188713
ISBN-10: 022618871X
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 550 color plates
Dimensiuni: 248 x 318 x 23 mm
Greutate: 1.65 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Locul publicării:Chicago, IL

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui pasionat de biologie marină sau ecologie care dorește să înțeleagă motorul invizibil al planetei. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care plonctonul reglează oxigenul și dioxidul de carbon, totul printr-o prezentare grafică de excepție. Este un instrument de studiu și un obiect de artă în același timp, ideal pentru studenți și naturaliști.

Despre autor

Christian Sardet este director de cercetare emerit la Laboratorul de Biologie Celulară din cadrul Stațiunii Marine Villefranche-sur-Mer, parte a prestigiosului Centru Național de Cercetare Științifică (CNRS) și a Universității Pierre și Marie Curie din Paris. Este recunoscut la nivel mondial ca unul dintre cofondatorii și coordonatorii expediției Tara Oceans, o inițiativă globală de studiere a ecosistemelor marine. De asemenea, a inițiat proiectul „Plankton Chronicles”, dedicat popularizării științei prin imagini macroscopice, activitatea sa fiind la intersecția dintre cercetarea fundamentală și documentarea vizuală a biodiversității.

Descriere scurtă

Ask anyone to picture a bird or a fish and a series of clear images will immediately come to mind. Ask the same person to picture plankton and most would have a hard time conjuring anything beyond a vague squiggle or a greyish fleck. This book will change that forever.

Viewing these creatures up close for the first time can be a thrilling experience—an elaborate but hidden world truly opens up before your eyes. Through hundreds of close-up photographs, Plankton transports readers into the currents, where jeweled chains hang next to phosphorescent chandeliers, spidery claws jut out from sinuous bodies, and gelatinous barrels protect microscopic hearts. The creatures’ vibrant colors pop against the black pages, allowing readers to examine every eye and follow every tentacle. Jellyfish, tadpoles, and bacteria all find a place in the book, representing the broad scope of organisms dependent on drifting currents.

Christian Sardet’s enlightening text explains the biological underpinnings of each species while connecting them to the larger living world. He begins with plankton’s origins and history, then dives into each group, covering ctenophores and cnidarians, crustaceans and mollusks, and worms and tadpoles. He also demonstrates the indisputable impact of plankton in our lives. Plankton drift through our world mostly unseen, yet they are diverse organisms that form ninety-five percent of ocean life. Biologically, they are the foundation of the aquatic food web and consume as much carbon dioxide as land-based plants. Culturally, they have driven new industries and captured artists’ imaginations.

While scientists and entrepreneurs are just starting to tap the potential of this undersea forest, for most people these pages will represent uncharted waters. Plankton is a spectacular journey that will leave readers seeing the ocean in ways they never imagined.

Notă biografică

Christian Sardet is cofounder and emeritus research director of the Laboratory of Cell Biology at the Marine Station of Villefranche-sur-mer, part of the Centre National de la recherche scientifique and Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. He is also cofounder and scientific coordinator of the Tara Oceans Expedition, a global voyage to study plankton, and creator of the Plankton Chronicles project, www.planktonchronicles.org.

Cuprins

Prologue, by Mark Ohman
Introduction. Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World
What Are Plankton?
Plankton and Man
The Origins: Life Shapes the Planet
Explosions, Extinctions, and Evolution of Life in the Ocean
A Chronological History of the Planet and the Tree of Life
Taxonomy and Phylogeny: Hierarchical Categorizations
Organisms of All Sizes, with Different Roles and Behavior
Collecting and Identifying Plankton, Then and Now
Plankton of the World           
Villefranche-sur-Mer, France: A Bay Famous for Its Plankton
Between Ecuador and Galapagos: Tara Oceans Expedition
South Carolina, United States: Salt Marsh Estuaries
Izu Peninsula and Shimoda, Japan: Autumn Plankton
Unicellular Creatures: From the Origins of Life
Bacteria, Archaea, and Viruses: Invisible but Omnipresent
Unicellular Protists: Precursors of Plants and Animals
Phytoplankton
Coccolithophores and Foraminifera: Limestone Architects
Diatoms and Dinoflagellates: Silicate or Cellulose Houses
Radiolarians: Polycystines and Acantharians: Symbiosis at the Ocean Surface
Ciliates, Tintinnids, and Choanoflagellates: Motility and Multicellularity
Ctenophores and Cnidarians: Ancestral Forms
Ctenophores: Carnivorous Comb Jellies
Jellyfish: Equipped to Survive
Siphonophores: The Longest Animals in the World
Velella, Porpita, and Physalia: Planktonic Sailors
Crustaceans and Mollusks: Champions of Diversity
Crustacean Larvae: Molting and Metamorphosis
Copepods to Amphipods: Variations on a Theme
Phronima: Monster in a Barrel
Pteropods and Heteropods: Mollusks That Swim with Their Feet
Cephalopods and Nudibranchs: Beautiful Colors and Camouflage
Worms and Tadpoles: Arrows, Tubes, and Nets
Chaetognaths: Arrows in the Oceans
Polychaete Annelids: Worms in the Sea
Salps, Doliolids, and Pyrosomes: Highly Evolved Gelatinous Animals
Larvaceans: Tadpoles That Live in a Net
Embryos and Larvae
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Bibliography, Websites
Credits
Index

Recenzii

"Filled with more than five hundred close-ups of jewel-like diatoms and gelatinous comb jellies, each accompanied by a condensed history and biography, the book is a long overdue introduction to the oceans’ ninety-eight percent."

"Plankton is so hot right now. You may have heard about the stuff that floats around the sea—tiny plant-like organisms called phytoplankton and beasties like small crustaceans called zooplankton—last month when a three-year oceanic expedition released a trove of findings about the global community’s composition and diversity. Anyone who is anyone has plankton on their mind.
And no one more so than Christian Sardet, who cofounded the expedition, known as Tara Oceans. His positively stunning book Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World features some of the most intriguing, most beautiful organisms that he had the honor of observing at hundreds of sites in the world’s oceans. It’s the catalog of a mission that has revealed just how diverse and gorgeous the lowly plankton can be, and how indispensable they are to life on Earth."

"Striking close-up photos and micrographs take center stage . . . revealing the dazzling diversity of these tiny creatures—from microscopic unicellular organisms to complex crustaceans."

"In this beautiful book, marine scientist Christian Sardet shows that tiny plankton, not enormous blue whales, are the real stars of the ocean. Macro pictures of the huge variety of plankton forms and short details of their lives force a reconsideration of our view of them as part of an amorphous soup. A celebration of the small, and an unalloyed joy."

"Extraordinary."

"Beautiful and informative, and written for a broad audience, Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World should be on everyone’s gift list this year."

“Humans are even more indebted to plankton, the organisms that make up 98 per cent of the ocean’s living biomass and which are brought vividly to life in Sardet’s microscopic images.”

"A fascinating book that will cause readers to think deeply about plankton and its importance to human and animal life. A biology or general science background is not necessary to read this book; the reader needs only a desire to learn more about these intriguing organisms."

"The usual line drawings and photos in invertebrate biology and plankton books rarely hint at how bizarre and colorful these tiny creatures can be.  The truly spectacular photographs in this beautiful book reveal the diversity of the free-floating organisms so critical to food webs throughout the world’s oceans, from microscopic plants and invertebrate larvae to huge jellyfish and salps. . . . Highly recommended."

“A stunningly beautiful work of art that is sure to draw the reader into this world typically missed by all but a few oceanographers and marine biologists.”

"When people think of the oceans, they usually think of the coast. But the coasts are just a thin ribbon compared to the vast volume of the open ocean. Christian Sardet does an extraordinary job revealing the world of plankton - the diverse organisms that are carried by the currents in the open ocean. These are utterly foreign organisms to most people, but by showing how beautiful they are and describing some of the biology behind their adaptations he succeeds in making them accessible and familiar. Many of these organisms are gelatinous, clear, and incredibly fragile. They look like blobs when they wash up on the beach, but come to life in the pages of Plankton."

"Wow! Simply splendidly wow! Christian Sardet has found that sweet spot where science meets art. The stunning images are a feast for the eyes and the fascinating information is a feast for the mind. Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World will appeal to people from all backgrounds, from those whose fondness for marine biology will be stoked by the depth and breadth of content, to those who may dabble curiously and become enchanted by the stories of the creatures that inhabit this strange world of minibeasts.

Sardet brings alive the history of plankton—both the recent history of the last few hundred years of science, and the deep history of the evolutionary relationships between the incredibly diverse beings that we collectively refer to as plankton. And then chapter by chapter, we get to know these creatures great and small, some spectacularly colored and others as invisible and mysterious as diamonds, the squishy, chewy, and crunchy drifters of the sea. Designed to be a coffee table book, Plankton is also the finest and most comprehensive textbook on the subject. This is a book that will gather no dust -- it is just too beautiful to put down!"

Winner

"Gorgeously illustrated and fascinating."

"A 21st century version of a Robert Hooke Book - in vivid color and beautiful photomicrographs... It's an incredibly beautiful book, almost a coffee table book, but it's also a serious science book."