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The ocean's operating system
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- Book Synopsis
- This book is a mechanism-first guide to how the sea actually works. Instead of lists of species and case studies, it teaches the rules-light, viscosity, turbulence, temperature, oxygen, pressure, and elemental budgets-and the devices organisms use to play by them: filters and houses, pellets and gels, pigments and transporters, and migrations and dormancy. You will learn to read edges and thin layers (microlayer, thermoclines, deep chlorophyll maximums, oxygen minimum zone rims, and submesoscale fronts), to see how carbon is routed-recycled aloft or exported at depth-by mineral ballast, gelatinous packaging, and the active pump of diel migrants. Climate change and acidification appear where they truly act (on viscosity, oxygen margins, and saturation horizons), while molecular and genomic ecology grounds traits in genes, transcripts, proteins, and metabolites. Throughout, the emphasis is on rate coupling, clean inference, and portable field signatures-size spectra, pellet fall speeds, acoustic and optical cues-you can test at sea. Written in clear, quantitative prose with only the math the argument needs, The Ocean's Operating System: The Mechanisms, Materials, and Rules Driving Marine Planktonic Life equips researchers, advanced students, modelers, and managers to move from a handful of measurements (light profiles, microstructure, temperature salinity, simple optics and chemistry) to community strategies, carbon routing, and flux. If you want a transferable toolkit-one you can carry from shelf to gyre, from polar ice to urban plumes-to predict "who will win, what will happen, and why," this is your field manual for reading, and using, the code that runs the ocean.
- About The Author
- Albert Calbet is a marine scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona. His research focuses on the ecology and ecophysiology of micro- and mesozooplankton, with influential work on the role of microzooplankton in marine food webs. He earned a Ph.D. in Marine Sciences from ICM-CSIC in 1997 and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. At ICM-CSIC, he has also served in leadership roles, including Deputy Director. Calbet has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers, contributed books and book chapters, and frequently presents at international conferences. He teaches and mentors students across undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels, reviews for funding agencies, serves on editorial boards, and actively engages in public outreach through websites, social media, and popular-science books writing.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781041271826
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- CRC Press, (29 July 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 150
- Weight
- 310 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 254 mm
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