Living Light: Conserving Bioluminescent Plants and Animals
Oct 2024 · Orca Wild Book 14 · Orca Book Publishers
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- This STEAM book examines the evolution, biology, habitat and threats to survival that bioluminescent species face on both land and in the ocean, and introduces young readers to a variety of bioluminescent species (there are quadrillions in the ocean alone) around the world and in various habitats.
- Explores topical issues, such as the effects of climate change, pollution, loss of habitat, overfishing, ocean acidification and invasive species on bioluminescent species.
- Examines the latest science on bioluminescent species. For example, it's being used to understand how cancer cells grow and how tropical diseases such as dengue fever and malaria spread.
- Profiles artists who make living art with bioluminescence, including Eduardo Kac's controversial fluorescent green, genetically modified live rabbit.
- Gives young readers practical tools to help conserve bioluminescent species, and shows how they can use citizen science to protect habitats and maintain biodiversity.
- The author is a biologist, the editorial director of the science journal Biodiversity and the author of two books in the Orca Footprints series (Saving the Night and Listen Up!).
About the author
Stephen Aitken is a biologist, artist and author. Despite an early brush with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), he became fascinated with bioluminescence while researching a book he wrote on the dangers of light pollution. He has written and illustrated many picture books, chapter books and close to a dozen nonfiction books for middle-grade readers, and he is the author of Saving the Night and Listen Up! in the Orca Footprints series. Stephen is the cofounder and executive secretary of Biodiversity Conservancy International and is the editorial director of the science journal Biodiversity.
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