Häftad, Engelska, 2020
Return to the Sea
The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals
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Return to the Sea portrays the life and evolutionary times of marine mammals—from giant whales and sea cows that originated 55 million years ago to the deep-diving elephant seals and clam-eating walruses of modern times. This fascinating account of the origin of various marine-mammal lineages—some extinct, others extant but threatened—is for the nonspecialist. Against a backdrop of geologic time and changing climates and geography, this volume takes evolution as its unifying principle to help us to understand today’s diversity of marine mammals and their responses to environmental challenges. Annalisa Berta explains current controversies and explores patterns of change now taking place, such as shifting food webs and predator-prey relationships, habitat degradation, global warming, and the effects of humans on marine-mammal communities.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2020-03-31
- Mått: 152 x 229 x 12 mm
- Vikt: 304 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: University of California Press
- Antal sidor: 224
- Förlag: University of California Press
- Illustratör: James L. Sumich, Carl Buell
- ISBN: 9780520355521
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Annalisa Berta is Professor Emerita in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University. She has served as the President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, and as Associate Editor of the scientific journal Marine Mammal Science.
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“Wide-ranging and fact-packed. . . .Berta writes in an engaging, jargon-free style, which makes the book readily accessible to students and teachers at both the graduate and the undergraduate levels. . . . As useful as it is stimulating.”
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