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Wildlife conservation in a changing climate
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ISBN: 9780226074627 9780226074634 9780226074641 0226074625 0226074633 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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Whales, whaling, and ocean ecosystems
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ISBN: 0520934199 1281752460 9786611752460 0520933206 1433701324 9780520933200 9781429456395 1429456396 9781433701320 9780520248847 0520248848 Year: 2006 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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This unprecedented volume presents a sweeping picture of what we know about the natural history, biology, and ecology of whales in the broad context of the dynamics of ocean ecosystems. Innovative and comprehensive, the volume encompasses multiple points of view to consider the total ecological impact of industrial whaling on the world's oceans. Combining empirical research, ecological theory and modeling, and historical data, its chapters present perspectives from ecology, population biology, physiology, genetics, evolutionary history, ocean biogeography, economics, culture, and law, among other disciplines. Throughout, contributors investigate how whaling fundamentally disrupted ocean ecosystems, examine the various roles whales play in food webs, and discuss the continuing ecological chain reactions to the depletion of these large animals. In addition to reviewing what is known of the current and historic whale populations, Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems considers how this knowledge will bear on scientific approaches to conservation and whaling in the future and provocatively asks whether it is possible to restore ocean ecosystems to their pre-whaling condition.

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