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Science 20 July 2007:
Vol. 317. no. 5836, pp. 321 - 322
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144489
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OCEANS:
Fragile Frontiers in the Abyss

Cindy Lee Van Dover

The Silent Deep
The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea
by Tony Koslow
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007. 292 pp. $35, £22.50. ISBN 9780226451251. University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, Australia. Aus $49.95. ISBN 9780868404158.
Koslow describes how and what we have learned of abyssal organisms and ecologies as well as the threats human activities pose to this ecosystem.
The reviewer is at the Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, 135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA. E-mail: clv3{at}duke.edu

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