Title Whales, whaling, and ocean ecosystems / edited by James A. Estes [and others]

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 402 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction / James A. Estes -- Part I. Background -- 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 sixth 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. -- Part II. Whales and whaling -- 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 -- Part III. Process and theory -- 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. Balance [and others] -- 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 [and others] -- 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 -- Part IV. Case studies -- Gray whales in the Bering and Chukchi seas / Raymond C. Highsmith [and others] -- 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 Oceans / 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 -- Part V. Social context -- The dynamic between social systems and ocean ecosystems : are there lessons from commercial whaling? / Daniel W. Bromley -- Whaling, law and culture / Michael K. Orbach -- Part VI. Overview and synthesis -- Whales are big and it matters / Peter Kareiva, Christopher Yuan-Farrell and Casey O'Connor -- Retrospection and review / J.A. Estes [and others] Summary Presenting a picture of what we know about the natural history biology, and ecology of whales in the broad context of the dynamics of ocean ecosystems, this volume encompasses multiple points of view to consider the total ecological impact of industrial whaling on the world's oceans Analysis comprehensive culture and law dynamics of ocean ecosystems ecological impact of industrial whaling ecological theory ecology economics empirical research evolutionary history genetics historical data innovative ocean biogeography overview of whales and ecosystems physiology population biology whales Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Whaling -- Environmental aspects Marine ecology. Whales -- Ecology SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity. NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife. SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Oceanography. Marine ecology Whales -- Ecology Whaling -- Environmental aspects Form Electronic book Author Estes, J. A. (James A.), 1945- editor. ISBN 9780520933200 0520933206 9781429456395 1429456396 1433701324 9781433701320

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