Whales, whaling, and ocean ecosystems

Estes, J. A. (James A.), 1945- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0520248848 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780520248847 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780520248847
Physical Description: print
xvi, 402 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Introduction / James A. Estes -- Background -- 2. Whales, interaction webs, and zero sum ecology / Robert T. Paine -- 3. Lessons from land : present and past signs of ecological decay and the overture to earth's 6th mass extinction / C. Josh Donlan, Paul S. Martin and Gary W. Roemer -- 4. When ecological pyramids were upside down / Jeremy B.C. Jackson -- 5. Pelagic ecosystem response to a century of commercial fishing and whaling / Timothy E. Essington -- 6. Evidence for bottom-up control of upper trophic level marine populations : is it scale-dependent? / George L. Hunt Jr. -- Whales and whaling -- 7. Evolutionary patterns in Cetacea : fishing up prey size through deep time / David R. Lindberg and Nicholas D. Pyenson -- 8. A taxonomy of world whaling : operations and eras / Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith -- 9. The history of whales read from DNA / Stephen R. Palumbi and Joe Roman -- 10. 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 -- 11. 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. --