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Nature of Florida's ocean life
Katz, Cathie

Nature of Florida's ocean life

Atlantic Press (1998)

Genre

  • Handbooks, Manuals
  • Non-Fiction

Subject

  • Marine Biology - Reefs
  • Marine Invertebrates - Identification
  • Natural History - Florida
  • Oceanography - Gulf Stream
  • Oceanography - Sargasso Sea
  • Seashore Biology - Atlantic Coast
  • Seeds - Dispersal

Plot

This book looks at Florida's ocean as a habitat, a community of elaborate mini-creatures swimming next to bulky saltwater giants. Drifting alongside these living creatures are inanimate objects--bottles, nurdles, rafts, toys and tar blobs--lost or tossed from cargo ships. They float in the Sargasso Sea or flow with the Gulf Stream, sometimes drifting to Florida's east coast to become part of the sea wrack--the flotsam and jetsam that we find when strolling on the shore.