Whales whaling and ocean ecosystems 1st Edition by James Estes, Douglas DeMaster, Daniel Doak, Terrie Williams, Robert Brownell ISBN 978-0520248847 0520248848

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ISBN 10: 0520248848

ISBN 13: 978-0520248847

Author: James A. Estes, Douglas P. DeMaster, Daniel F. Doak, Terrie M. Williams, Robert L. Brownell Jr.

This unprecedented volume presents a sweeping picture of what we know about the natural history, biology, and ecology of whales in the broad context of the dynamics of ocean ecosystems. Innovative and comprehensive, the volume encompasses multiple points of view to consider the total ecological impact of industrial whaling on the world’s oceans. Combining empirical research, ecological theory and modeling, and historical data, its chapters present perspectives from ecology, population biology, physiology, genetics, evolutionary history, ocean biogeography, economics, culture, and law, among other disiplines. Throughout, contributors investigate how whaling fundamentally disrupted ocean ecosystems, examine the various roles whales play in food webs, and discuss the continuing ecological chain reactions to the depletion of these large animals. In addition to reviewing what is known of the current and historic whale populations, Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems considers how this knowledge will bear on scientific approaches to conservation and whaling in the future and provocatively asks whether it is possible to restore ocean ecosystems to their pre-whaling condition.

Table of contents: 

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS vii

LIST OF TABLES ix

LIST OF FIGURES xi

1 Introduction 1 James A. Estes

BACKGROUND

2 Whales, Interaction Webs, and Zero-Sum Ecology 7 Robert T. Paine

3 Lessons From Land Present and Past Signs of Ecolog-ical Decay and the Overture to Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction 14 C. Josh Donlan, Paul S. Martin, and Gary W. Roemer

4 When Ecological Pyramids Were Upside Down 27 Jeremy B.C. Jackson

5 Pelagic Ecosystem Response to a Century of Commercial Fishing and Whaling 38 Timothy E. Essington

6 Evidence for Bottom-Up Control of Upper-Trophic-Level Marine Populations Is it Scale-Dependent? 50 George L.. Hunt, Jr.

WHALES AND WHALING

7 Evolutionary Patterns in Cetacea Fishing Up Prey Size through Deep Time 67 David R. Lindberg and Nicholas D. Pyenson

8 A Taxonomy of World Whaling Operations and Fras 82 Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith

9 The History of Whales Read from DNA 102 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 116 Bete Pfister and Douglas P. DeMaster

11 Industrial Whaling in the North Pacific Ocean 1952-1978 Spatial Patterns of Harvest and Decline 134 Eric M. Danner, Matthew J. Kauffman, and Robert L.. Brownell, Jr.

12 Worldwide Distribution and Abundance of Killer Whales 145 Karin A. Forney and Paul R. Wade

13 The Natural History and Ecology of Killer Whales 163 Lance G. Barrett-Lennard and Kathy A. Heise

14 Kiler Whales as Predators of Large Baleen Whales and Sperm Whales 174 Randall R. Reeves, Joel Berger, and Phillip J. Clapham

PROCESS AND THE ORY

15 Physiological and Ecological Consequences of Extreme Body Size in Whales 191 Terrie M. Williams

16 Ecosystem Impact of the Decline of Large Whales in the North Pacific 202 Donald A. Croll, Raphael Kudela, and Bernie R. Tershy

17 The Removal of Large Whales from the Southern Ocean Evidence for Long-Term Ecosystem Effects? 215 Lisa T. Ballance, Robert L.. Pitman, Roger P. Hewitt, Donald B. Siniff, Wayne Z. Trivelpiece, Phillip J. Clapham, and Robert L. Brownell, Jr.

18 Great Whales as Prey Using Demography and Bioenergetics to Infer Interactions in Marine Mammal Communities 231 Daniel F. Doak, Terrie M. Williams, and James A. Estes

19 Whales and Whaling in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea Oceanographic Insights and Ecosystem Impacts 245 Alan M. Springer, Gus B. van Vliet, John F. Piatt, and Eric M. Danner

20 Legacy of Industrial Whaling Could Killer Whales be Responsible for Declines of Sea Lions, Elephant Seals, and Minke Whales in the Southern Hemisphere? 262 Trevor A. Branch and Terrie M. Williams

21 Predator Diet Breadth and Prey Population Dynamics Mechanism and Modeling 279 Marc Mangel and Nicholas Wolf

22 Bigger Is Better The Role of Whales as Detritus in Marine Ecosystems 286 Craig R. Smith

CASE STUDIES

23 Gray Whales in the Bering and Chukchi Seas 303 Raymond C. Highsmith, Kenneth O. Coyle, Bodil A. Bluhm, and Brenda Konar

24 Whales, Whaling, and Ecosys-tems in the North Atlantic Ocean 314 Phillip J. Clapham and Jason S. Link

25 Sperm Whales in Ocean Ecosystems 324 Hal Whitehead

26 Ecosystem Effects of Fishing and Whaling in the North Pacific and Atlantic Oceans 335 Boris Worm, Heike K. Lotze, and Ransom A. Myers

27 Potential Influences of Whaling on the Status and Trends of Pinniped Populations 344 Daniel P. Costa, Michael J. Weise, and John P.Y. Arnould

SOCIAL CONTEXT

28 The Dynamic Between Social Systems and Ocean Ecosystems Are There Lessons from Commercial Whaling? 363 Daniel W. Bromley

29 Whaling, Law, and Culture 373 Michael K. Orbach

OVERVIEW AND SYNTHESIS

30 Whales Are Big and It Matters 379 Peter Kareiva, Christopher Yuan-Farrell, and Casey O’Connor

31 Retrospection and Review 388 J.A. Estes, D. P. DeMaster, R.L.. Brownell, Jr., D.F. Doak, and T.M. Williams

INDEX 395

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