Baseline Report of the Census of Marine Life

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ID Census of Marine Life, Consortium for Oceanographic Research and

2003
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CONTENTS

Foreword.2

Summary.3

The Unknown Ocean: Baseline Report of the Census of Marine Life4

I. Separating the Known, Unknown, and Unknowable5

II. The Dimensions7

Size

Time

III. Three Large Tasks9

What did live in the oceans?

What lives in the oceans now?

What will live in the oceans of the future?

IV. The Baseline of Known, Unknown, and Unknowable Life in Six Ocean Realms11

The Human Edges

Nearshore

Coastal

The Hidden Boundaries

Continental Margins

Abyssal Plains

The Central Waters

The Light Zone

The Dark Zone

The Active Geology - Seamounts, Vents and Seeps

The Ice Oceans - Arctic and Antarctic

The Microscopic

V. Technology for Discoveries23

Commercial and Military Sound

Light

Telemetry

Genetics

Conclusion.25

Glossary.26

Bibliography.27

Acknowledgments..28