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Informationen zum Autor Professor Ian Boyd is the Director of the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has worked for over two decades on marine mammals, mainly the Antarctic fur seal but has recently changed focus to study beaked whales in the tropics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has received several prestigious awards including the W.S. Bruce Medal for his research in polar science and the Zoological Society of London's Scientific Medal.Dr. Don Bowen is a Senior Biologist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor at Dalhousie University and a former Division Chief of the Marine Fish Division at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography and former editor of Marine Mammal Science. He has focussed most of his research since the early 1980s on north Atlantic pinnipeds, especially grey seals.He is one of the world's leading marine mammal population ecologists.Professor Sara Iverson is a faculty member in the Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a physiological ecologist and is a leader in the field of trophic ecology of marine mammals and seabirds through her development of fatty acid signature analysis to derive information about predator diets. She has received a number of prestigious awards for her work including the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship. Klappentext Much of our knowledge about marine mammals is derived from a long-term and dedicated research effort that is evolving rapidly due to the introduction and invention of new methods.This book reflects the inventiveness of marine researchers as they try to find ways around the problems presented to them by these unusual and challenging animals. Zusammenfassung Much of our knowledge about marine mammals is derived from a long-term and dedicated research effort that is evolving rapidly due to the introduction and invention of new methods.This book reflects the inventiveness of marine researchers as they try to find ways around the problems presented to them by these unusual and challenging animals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Nick Gales, David Johnston, Charles Littnan, and Ian L. Boyd: Ethics in Marine Mammal Science 2: Tom Loughlin, Louise Cunningham, Nick Gales, Randall Wells, and Ian Boyd: Marking and Capturing 3: Philip S. Hammond: Estimating the Abundance of Marine Mammals 4: Jason Matthiopoulos and Geert Aarts: The Spatial Analysis of Marine Mammal Abundance 5: W. Don Bowen and Simon Northridge: Morphometrics, Age Estimation, and Growth 6: Jason Baker, Andrew Westgate, and Tomo Eguchi: Vital Rates and Population Dynamics 7: Ailsa J. Hall, Frances M.D. Gulland, John A. Hammond, and Lori H. Schwacke: 4 Epidemiology, Disease, and Health Assessment 8: Sara J. Iverson, Carol E. Sparling, Terrie Williams, Shelley L. C. Lang, and W. Don Bowen: Measurement of Individual and Population Energetics of Marine Mammals 9: D.J. Tollit, G.J. Pierce, K.A. Hobson, W.D. Bowen, and S.J. Iverson: Diet 10: Bernie McConnell, Mike Fedak, Sascha Hooker, and Toby Patterson: Telemetry 11: Mark A. Hindell, Dan Crocker, Yoshihisa Mori, and Peter Tyack: Foraging Behaviour 12: Hal Whitehead and Sofie Van Parijs: Studying Marine Mammal Social Systems 13: W.D. Bowen, J.D. Baker, I.L. Boyd, J.A. Estes, J.K.B. Ford, S.D Kraus, S.D., D. Siniff, I. Stirling, and R. Wells: Long-term Studies 14: Barbara L. Taylor, Karen Martien, and Phillip Morin: Identifying Units to Conserve using Genetic Data 15: John Harwood: Approaches to Management 16: Andrew J. Read: Conservation Biology References Index ...
