Front cover image for The urban whale : North Atlantic right whales at the crossroads

The urban whale : North Atlantic right whales at the crossroads

In 1980 a group of scientists censusing marine mammals in the Bay of Fundy was astonished at the sight of twenty-five right whales. Until that time, scientists believed the North Atlasntic right whale was extinct or nealy so
Print Book, English, 2007
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2007
xviii, 543 pages, 34 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
9780674023277, 9780674034754, 0674023277, 0674034759
69792450
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. Simith 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 [and others]
Enormous carnivores, microscopic food, and a restaurant that's hard to find / Mark F. Baumgarner, 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 [and others]
The inner whale: hormones, biotoxins, and parasites / Rosalind M. Rolland [and others]
External perspectives on right whale health / Rosalind M. Rolland [and others]
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 [and others]
Right whale mortality : a message from the dead to the living / Michael J. Moore [and others]
The entangled lives of right whales and fishermen : can they coexist? / Amanda J. Johnsonn [and others]
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