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Title:

The urban whale : North Atlantic right whales at the crossroads / edited by Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009, c2007

Description:

xviii, 543 p., 34 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Right whales--North Atlantic Ocean.

Other Authors:

Kraus, Scott D.
Rolland, Rosalind.

Notes:

Originally published: 2007. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Right whales in the urban ocean / Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland -- Near-annihilation of a species: right whaling in the North Atlantic / Randall R. Reeves, Tim D. Smith, and Elizabeth A. Josephson -- Right whales tell their own stories: the photo-identification catalog / Philip K. Hamilton, Amy R. Knowlton, and Marilyn K. Marx -- Surveying for discovery, science, and management / Moira W. Brown ... [et al.] -- Enormous carnivores, microscopic food, and a restaurant that's hard to find / Mark F. Baumgartner, Charles A. Mayo, and Robert D. Kenney -- High investment, low return : the strange case of reproduction in Eubalaena glacialis / Scott D. Kraus, Richard M. Pace III, and Timothy R. Frasier -- Right whales past and present as revealed by their genes / Timothy R. Frasier ... [et al.] -- The inner whale : hormones, biotoxins, and parasites / Rosalind M. Rolland ... [et al.] -- External perspectives on right whale health / Rosalind M. Rolland ... [et al.] -- Acoustic communication : social sounds and the potential impacts of noise / Susan E. Parks and Christopher W. Clark -- Listening to their world : acoustics for monitoring and protecting right whales in an urbanized ocean / Christopher W. Clark ... [et al.] -- Right whale mortality : a message from the dead to the living / Michael J. Moore ... [et al.] -- The entangled lives of right whales and fishermen : can they coexist? / Amanda J. Johnson ... [et al.] -- Running the gauntlet : right whales and vessel strikes / Amy R. Knowlton and Moira W. Brown -- Right whales and climate change : facing the prospect of a greenhouse future / Robert D. Kenney -- The big picture : modeling right whales in space and time / Lance P. Garrison -- The urban whale syndrome / Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland.

ISBN:

0674034759 (pbk.)
9780674034754 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)316038017

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)