Marine Mammals of the World

A Comprehensive Guide to Their Identification
3rd Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-443-18572-4
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 500 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 276 mm

Marine Mammals of the World, 3rd Edition describes and illustrates newly discovered and rarely photographed species, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date identification guide to all the marine mammal species of the world.

This latest edition continues to meet the research-focused needs of marine biologists, conservation biologists, and students, as well as weekend whale-watchers and community scientists, by providing an unmatched collection of new illustrations and photos, taking advantage of advances in digital and drone photography. This guide describes the identification features, global distribution, and basic biology of all the extant and recently extinct marine mammal species, including cetaceans, sirenians, pinnipeds, and other marine carnivores.

Marine Mammals of the World, 3rd Edition is a vital resource for marine biologists and ecologists, as well as wildlife managers, conservation and comparative biologists and physiologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Webber, Marc A

Jefferson, Thomas Allen

Pitman, Robert L

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbeltiere (Vertebrata) Säugetiere (Mammalia)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeresbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Basic Marine Mammal Biology
3. Taxonomic Groupings Above the Species Level
4. Cetaceans
5. Pinnipeds
6. Sirenians
7. Otters and Polar Bears
8. Extinct Species
9. Identification Keys

Über Autor(innen)

Pitman, Robert L
Robert L. Pitman is a marine biologist at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California,
and has published extensively on marine birds and mammals. Since 1976 he has averaged 6 months a year
at sea on research vessels operating in all the world's oceans. His current research interests include ecology
and systematics of killer whales in Antarctica and Australia.

Jefferson, Thomas Allen
Dr. Thomas Jefferson's main interests are the development of marine mammal identification aids, and the systematics and population ecology of the more poorly known species of dolphins and porpoises. His work since receiving his PhD in 1983 has been related to conservation and management of marine mammals threatened by human activities. His current primary research focuses on the conservation biology of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) and finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) populations in Hong Kong and surrounding waters. I am also working on other projects looking at the systematics and ecology of these species throughout their ranges. In addition, I am involved in many other projects, including those on the conservation of the critically endangered vaquita (Phocoena sinus) and on the taxonomy and population ecology of common dolphins (Delphinus spp.)

Webber, Marc A
Marc Webber is a marine mammal specialist with an undergraduate and graduate degree from San Francisco State University. He has worked as a biologist and refuge manager for non-profit organizations and the US government for his entire career in places all over the country. Among other accomplishments, Dr. Webber has worked with stranded marine mammals, conducted marine mammal and seabird studies by ship and aircraft for NMFS and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in the North and South Pacific, North Atlantic, and Arctic, studied Monk Seals in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Northern Fur Seals at San Miguel and the Pribilof Islands, Walrus in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, Harp Seals in Russia, and Dusky Dolphins in New Zealand. He has done extensive work with stranded marine mammals, co-authored many journal articles and book chapters, and conducted marine mammal and seabird ship and aircraft surveys over most oceans of the world.