Author: Robert D. Everitt
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Category : Harbor seal
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Populations of Harbor Seals and Other Marine Mammals
Author: Robert D. Everitt
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Category : Harbor seal
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Publisher:
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Category : Harbor seal
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters
Author: Todd J. Braje
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520948971
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
For more than ten thousand years, Native Americans from Alaska to southern California relied on aquatic animals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters for food and raw materials. Archaeological research on the interactions between people and these marine mammals has made great advances recently and provides a unique lens for understanding the human and ecological past. Archaeological research is also emerging as a crucial source of information on contemporary environmental issues as we improve our understanding of the ancient abundance, ecology, and natural history of these species. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume brings together archaeologists, biologists, and other scientists to consider how archaeology can inform the conservation and management of pinnipeds and other marine mammals along the Pacific Coast.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520948971
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
For more than ten thousand years, Native Americans from Alaska to southern California relied on aquatic animals such as seals, sea lions, and sea otters for food and raw materials. Archaeological research on the interactions between people and these marine mammals has made great advances recently and provides a unique lens for understanding the human and ecological past. Archaeological research is also emerging as a crucial source of information on contemporary environmental issues as we improve our understanding of the ancient abundance, ecology, and natural history of these species. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary volume brings together archaeologists, biologists, and other scientists to consider how archaeology can inform the conservation and management of pinnipeds and other marine mammals along the Pacific Coast.
Elephant Seals
Author: Burney J. Le Beouf
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520328159
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close to extinction and made such a complete recovery. The physiological extremes that elephant seals can tolerate are also remarkable: females fast for a month while lactating, and the largest breeding males fast for over one hundred days during the breeding seasons, at which times both sexes lose forty percent of their body weight. Elephant seals dive constantly during their long foraging migrations, spending more time under water than most whales and diving deeper and longer than any other marine mammal. This first book-length discussion of elephant seals brings together worldwide expertise from scientists who describe and debate recent research, including the history and status of various populations, their life-history tactics, and other findings obtained with the help of modern microcomputer diving instruments attached to free-ranging seals. Essential for all marine mammalogists for its information and its methodological innovations, Elephant Seals will also illuminate current debates about species extinctions and possible means of preventing them. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520328159
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern species. No other vertebrate has come so close to extinction and made such a complete recovery. The physiological extremes that elephant seals can tolerate are also remarkable: females fast for a month while lactating, and the largest breeding males fast for over one hundred days during the breeding seasons, at which times both sexes lose forty percent of their body weight. Elephant seals dive constantly during their long foraging migrations, spending more time under water than most whales and diving deeper and longer than any other marine mammal. This first book-length discussion of elephant seals brings together worldwide expertise from scientists who describe and debate recent research, including the history and status of various populations, their life-history tactics, and other findings obtained with the help of modern microcomputer diving instruments attached to free-ranging seals. Essential for all marine mammalogists for its information and its methodological innovations, Elephant Seals will also illuminate current debates about species extinctions and possible means of preventing them. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.
Harbor Seals
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Category : Harbor seal
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
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Category : Harbor seal
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Biology of Marine Mammals
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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Marine Mammals and the Exxon Valdez
Author: Thomas R. Loughlin
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483288811
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The oil spill disaster that occurred when the Exxon Valdez ran aground has become part of the iconography of ecological disaster. This book synthesizes previously confidential data only recently released by the U.S. government. The data concerns the effects of this nightmarish spill on marine mammals, such as sea otters, harbor seals, killer whales, and humpback whales. Because many of the book's contributors were on site within 24 hours of this 11 million gallon catastrophe, the book is a unique longitudinal study of the demise of an ecosystem due to a single acute environmental perturbation.These certain-to-be-influential results reported here should assist marine biologists, pathologists, toxicologists, environmentalists, engineers, and coastal planners in assessing the nature of this now legendary disaster.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483288811
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The oil spill disaster that occurred when the Exxon Valdez ran aground has become part of the iconography of ecological disaster. This book synthesizes previously confidential data only recently released by the U.S. government. The data concerns the effects of this nightmarish spill on marine mammals, such as sea otters, harbor seals, killer whales, and humpback whales. Because many of the book's contributors were on site within 24 hours of this 11 million gallon catastrophe, the book is a unique longitudinal study of the demise of an ecosystem due to a single acute environmental perturbation.These certain-to-be-influential results reported here should assist marine biologists, pathologists, toxicologists, environmentalists, engineers, and coastal planners in assessing the nature of this now legendary disaster.
Impacts of California Sea Lions and Pacific Harbor Seals on Salmonids and West Coast Ecosystems
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Category : California sea lion
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : California sea lion
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Marine Mammals Ashore
Author: Joseph R. Geraci
Publisher: National Aquarium in Baltimore
ISBN: 0977460908
Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Comprehensive manual for understanding and carrying out marine mammal rescue activities for stranded seals, manatees, dolphins, whales, or sea otters.
Publisher: National Aquarium in Baltimore
ISBN: 0977460908
Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Comprehensive manual for understanding and carrying out marine mammal rescue activities for stranded seals, manatees, dolphins, whales, or sea otters.
An Annotated Catalog of Published and Unpublished Sources of Data on Populations, Life History, and Ecology of Coastal Marine Mammals of California
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Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Seasonal Abundance, Distribution, and Ecology of the Harbor Seal, Phoca Vitulina Richardsi, on San Miguel Island, California
Author: Brent S Stewart
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Category : Harbor seal
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Publisher:
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Category : Harbor seal
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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