ECOSYSTEM GUIDES
Tropical Open Ocean
The field guide to the ecology and wildlife of the world's tropical open oceans...
This book covers the nature & wildlife you may encounter while travelling the surface of the open oceans of the tropics. This is the largest single ecosystem on the planet. While it appears empty and devoid of life, the patience observer is rewarded with sights of cetaceans, sea snakes and cyclones!
excerpts from the book...
Publication details
An ebook available that is currently exclusively through amazon Kindle. Approximately 150 pages and 33MB size (subsequent editions will increase in pages, size and price). The 'print edition' format is used to maintain the layout of images and text.
“Ecosystem Guides: Tropical Open Ocean”
Published by Damon Ramsey, trading as Ecosystem Guides, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 4870.
This edition published 2023. Parts of this book were kinda sorta previously published as “Ecosystem Guides: Ocean Surfaces of Australasia” (2009).
All photographs and text copyright Damon Ramsey, 2009-2023.
Parts of this publication can be reproduced for genuine educational or training purposes, but must include due credit to the author Damon Ramsey at Ecosystem Guides. For all other reasons, please contact the author below.
The author cannot be responsible for readers getting stung by sea jelly, clipped by a crab, beaten by a booby, or any other mishaps derived from following the information in this book.
ISBN: 978-0-9757470-7-0
Cover photographs: flying fish, off Madagascar, Indian Ocean. All the photographs and other images in this book are by Damon Ramsey, unless indicated.