A synthesis and analysis of the first Census of Marine Life, this book brings together the work of over 2700 scientists from more than 80 nations around the globe, including Dalhousie contributors Ian Jonsen (Biology), Heike Lotze (Biology), Anna Metaxas (Oceanography), Catherine Muir (Biology), and Boris Worm (Biology).

Life in the World’s Oceans is broadly divided into four sections, covering oceans past, oceans present, and oceans future, and a final section on how the data which has been gathered is being used. Find it in WorldCat now!

This is a book about vastness and deepness…
This is a book of journeys…
This is a book of mysteries…

This book reports the known, the unknown, and unknowable of the first Census of Marine Life.

This book is about the richness of 3.5 billion years.

From the Foreword by Jesse H. Ausubel