Author: Brent Scott StewartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Ecology and Population Biology of the Northern Elephant Seal, Mirounga Angustirostris Gill 1866, on the Southern California Channel Islands
Author: Brent Scott StewartPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Elephant Seals
Author: Burney J. Le BeoufPublisher: 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.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Marine Debris
Author: Fishery Bulletin
Author: Wildlife 2001: Populations
Author: D.R. McCulloughPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401128685
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 1156
Book Description
In 1984, a conference called Wildlife 2000: Modeling habitat relationships of terrestrial vertebrates, was held at Stanford Sierra Camp at Fallen Leaf Lake in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. The conference was well-received, and the published volume (Verner, J. , M. L. Morrison, and C. J. Ralph, editors. 1986. Wildlife 2000: modeling habitat relationships of terrestrial vertebrates, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, USA) proved to be a landmark publication that received a book award by The Wildlife Society. Wildlife 2001: populations was a followup conference with emphasis on the other major biological field of wildlife conservation and management, populations. It was held on July 29-31, 1991, at the Oakland Airport Hilton Hotel in Oakland, California, in accordance with our intent that this conference have a much stronger international representation than did Wildlife 2000. The goal of the conference was to bring together an international group of specialists to address the state of the art in wildlife population dynamics, and set the agenda for future research and management on the threshold of the 21st century. The mix of specialists included workers in theoretical, as well as practical, aspects of wildlife conservation and management. Three general sessions covered methods, modelling, and conservation of threatened species.
A Review of the Population Ecology of the Northern Elephant Seal (Mirounga Angustirostris)
Author: Peter John Patrick GoganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammal populations
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Molecular and Cell Biology of Marine Mammals
Author: Carl J. PfeifferPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
Marine mammals comprise some of the most highly adapted mammals, many with unbelievable diving capabilities, high intelligence and complex social behaviour, and some with brains larger than that of humans. Many possess echolocating and communication skills that we are only beginning to understand. This work brings together a group of experts focused upon cell and molecular biology of aquatic mammals. Methods currently being used to explore marine mammal biology are discussed, such as genetic tracing of subpopulations of whales and seals by DNA fingerprinting, use of immune system molecular markers, cell culture and ELISA techniques, and electron microscopy.
NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS-MEMD
Author: Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium
Author: David R. BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Wildlife Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description