Strategies for conserving marine mammals

Marsh, Helene, Arnold, Peter , Freeman, Milton, Haynes, David, Laist, David, Read, Andrew , Reynolds, John , and Kasuya, Toshio (2003) Strategies for conserving marine mammals. In: Gales, Nick, Hindell, Mark, and Kirkwood, Roger, (eds.) Marine Mammals: fisheries, tourism and management issues. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, VIC, Australia, pp. 1-19.

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Abstract

Marine mammals arc often considered as a group by the general public, biologists, natural resource managers and legislators. Nonetheless, they comprise members of three very different orders of animals with different evolutionary histories. The Carnivora includes 36 extant and recently extinct species of seals, sealions and walruses (Rice 1998) as well as the polar bear and two species of marine otters. Systematists disagree about the exact number of species of the order Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises). Rice (1998) lists 83 species in two sub-orders: the Mysticeti (baleen whales) and Odontoceti (toothed whales). There are four extant species of Sirenia (manatees and dugongs). The gigantic Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was hunted to extinction by sealers in the eighteenth cetury.

Item ID: 7428
Item Type: Book Chapter (Research - B1)
ISBN: 978-0-643-06953-4
Keywords: conservation; marine mammals
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Date Deposited: 13 Jan 2010 01:57
FoR Codes: 05 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES > 0502 Environmental Science and Management > 050202 Conservation and Biodiversity @ 51%
06 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 0602 Ecology > 060205 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl Marine Ichthyology) @ 49%
SEO Codes: 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9608 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity > 960808 Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity @ 51%
96 ENVIRONMENT > 9608 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity > 960802 Coastal and Estuarine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity @ 49%
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