Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Kraus, Scott D.
• Rolland, Rosalind.

Description

xviii, 543 pages, 34 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 25 cm

Subject

• Right whales > North Atlantic Ocean

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Right whales in the urban ocean / Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland -- 2. Near-annihilation of a species : right whaling in the North Atlantic / Randall R. Reeves, Tim D. Smith and Elizabeth A. Josephson -- 3. Right whales tell their own stories : the photo-identification catalog / Philip K. Hamilton, Amy R. Knowlton and Marilyn K. Marx -- 4. Surveying for discovery, science, and management / Moira W. Brown, Scott D. Kraus, Christopher K. Slay and Lance P. Garrison -- 5. Enormous carnivores, microscopic food, and a restaurant that's hard to find / Mark F. Baumgartner, Charles A. Mayo and Robert D. Kenney -- 6. High investment, low return : the strange case of reproduction in Eubalaena glacialis / Scott D. Kraus, Richard M. Pace III and Timothy R. Frasier -- 7. Right whales past and present as revealed by their genes / Timothy R. Frasier, Brenna A. McLeod, Roxanne M. Gillett, Moira W. Brown and Bradley N. White -- 8. The inner whale : hormones, biotoxins, and parasites / Rosalind M. Rolland, Kathleen E. Hunt, Gregory J. Doucette, Lora G. Rickard and Samuel K. Wasser -- 9. External perspectives on right whale health / Rosalind M. Rolland, Philip K. Hamilton, Marilyn K. Marx, Heather M. Pettis, Carolyn M. Angell and Michael J. Moore -- 10. Acoustic communication : social sounds and the potential impacts of noise / Susan E. Parks and Christopher W. Clark -- 11. Listening to their world : acoustics for monitoring and protecting right whales in an urbanized ocean / Christopher W. Clark, Douglas Gillespie, Douglas P. Nowacek and Susan E. Parks -- 12. Right whale mortality : a message from the dead to the living / Michael J. Moore, William A. McLellan, Pierre-Yves Daoust, Robert K. Bonde and Amy R. Knowlton -- 13. The entangled lives of right whales and fishermen : can they coexist? / Amanda J. Johnson, Scott D. Kraus, John F. Kenney and Charles A. Mayo -- 14. Running the gauntlet : right whales and vessel strikes / Amy R. Knowlton and Moira W. Brown -- 15. Right whales and climate change : facing the prospect of a greenhouse future / Robert D. Kenney -- 16. The big picture : modeling right whales in space and time / Lance P. Garrison -- 17. The urban whale syndrome / Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland -- App. A. Permit Information -- App. B. Opportunistic Contributors to the right whale catalog.

ISBN

• 0674023277 (alk. paper)
• 9780674023277 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006043681

OCLC

• OCM69792450
• 69792450
• SCSB-5329537

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries