Visages de la biodiversité marine by Pierre Brunel

“…Marine ecological biodiversity is illustrated first by the major ways of life (plankton, nekton, benthos and parasites), and afterwards by the large groups of species with different geographic distributions determined by present-day temperatures but strongly influenced by the evolutionary history of the earth. Ecosystems are a third kind of functional organization of microbial, plant and animal communities which are deeply structured by depth and light in the sea. …”
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