Ocean outbreak : confronting the rising tide of marine disease / Drew Harvell.
Ocean outbreak : confronting the rising tide of marine disease / Drew Harvell.
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Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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G 2019/2625
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English
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xiv, 216 pages ; 22 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
What rises with the tide? -- Coral outbreaks : a global threat to marine biodiversity -- Abalone outbreaks : a steady path to extinction? -- Salmon outbreaks : food from the ocean imperiled -- Starfish outbreaks : an ecological domino effect -- Nature's services to the rescue -- Afterword: The next...
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Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
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California
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[2019]
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"There is a growing crisis in our oceans as rates of infectious disease outbreaks are on the rise. Marine epidemics have the potential to cause a mass die-off of wildlife from the bottom to the top of the food chain, impacting the health of ocean ecosystems as well as lives on land. Ocean outbreaks are a sentinel of an impending global environmenta...
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Ocean outbreak : confronting the rising tide of marine disease / Drew Harvell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2019/2625
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74VKVxPvzjGO
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0520296974 hardcover alkaline paper
9780520296978 hardcover alkaline paper
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577.7
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991024244815502626