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Return to the Sea

Return to the Sea

The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals

by Annalisa Berta, Carl Buell and James L. Sumich
Hardback
Publication Date: 25/04/2012
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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.
ISBN:
9780520270572
9780520270572
Category:
Biology
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
25-04-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
University of California Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
224
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x15mm
Weight:
0.54kg
Annalisa Berta

Annalisa Berta is professor emerita of biology at San Diego State University. A specialist in the anatomy and evolutionary biology of marine mammals, especially baleen whales, she formally described a skeleton of the early pinniped Enaliarctos.

She is the author of Return to the Sea: The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals and the editor of the award-winning Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises: A Natural History and Species Guide.

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