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Whales, whaling, and ocean ecosystems
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University of California Press
Publication Date
c2006
Language
English
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Whales, interaction webs, and zero sum ecology / Robert T. Paine
Lessons from land : present and past signs of ecological decay and the overture to earth's 6th mass extinction / C. Josh Donlan, Paul S. Martin and Gary W. Roemer
When ecological pyramids were upside down / Jeremy B.C. Jackson
Pelagic ecosystem response to a century of commercial fishing and whaling / Timothy E. Essington
Evidence for bottom-up control of upper trophic level marine populations : is it scale-dependent? / George L. Hunt Jr.
Evolutionary patterns in Cetacea : fishing up prey size through deep time / David R. Lindberg and Nicholas D. Pyenson
A taxonomy of world whaling : operations and eras / Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith
The history of whales read from DNA / Stephen R. Palumbi and Joe Roman
Changes in marine mammal biomass in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands region before and after the period of commercial whaling / Bete Pfister and Douglas P. DeMaster
Industrial whaling in the North Pacific Ocean 1952-1978 : spatial patterns of harvest and decline / Eric M. Danner, Matthew J. Kauffman and Robert L. Brownell Jr.
Worldwide distribution and abundance of killer whales / Karin A. Forney and Paul R. Wade
The natural history and ecology of killer whales / Lance G. Barrett-Lennard and Kathy A. Heise
Killer whales as predators of large baleen whales and sperm whales / Randall R. Reeves, Joel Berger and Phillip J. Clapham
Physiological and ecological consequences of extreme body size in whales / Terrie M. Williams
Ecosystem impact of the decline of large whales in the North Pacific / Donald A. Croll, Raphael Kudela and Bernie R. Tershy
The removal of large whales from the Southern Ocean : evidence for long-term ecosystem effects? / Lisa T. Ballance ... [et al.]
Great whales as prey : using demography and bioenergetics to infer interactions in marine mammal communities / Daniel F. Doak, Terrie M. Williams and James A. Estes
Whales and whaling in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea : oceanographic insights and ecosystem impacts / Alan M. Springer ... [et al.]
Legacy of industrial whaling : could killer whales be responsible for declines of sea lions, elephant seals and minke whales in the Southern Hemisphere? / Trevor A. Branch and Terrie M. Williams
Predator diet breadth and prey population dynamics : mechanism and modeling / Marc Mangel and Nicholas Wolf
Bigger is better : the role of whales as detritus in marine ecosystems / Craig R. Smith
Gray whales in the Bering and Chukchi seas / Raymond C. Highsmith ... [et al.]
Whales, whaling and ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean / Phillip J. Clapham and Jason S. Link
Sperm whales in ocean ecosystems / Hal Whitehead
Ecosystem effects of fishing and whaling in the North Pacific and Atlantic Ocean / Boris Worm, Heike K. Lotze and Ransom A. Myers
Potential influences of whaling on the status and trends of pinniped populations / Daniel P. Costa, Michael J. Weise and John P.Y. Arnould
The dynamic between social systems and ocean ecosystems : are there lessons from commercial whaling? / Daniel W. Bromley
Whaling, law and culture / Michael K. Orbach
Whales are big and it matters / Peter Kareiva, Christopher Yuan-Farrell and Casey O'Connor
Retrospection and review / J.A. Estes ... [et al.].
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9780520248847
9780520933200
9780520933200
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