- Preface
- List of Marine Species
- Abbreviations
- 1. Right Whales in the Urban Ocean [Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland]
- 2. Near-Annihilation of a Species: Right Whaling in the North Atlantic [Randall R. Reeves, Tim D. Smith, and Elizabeth A. Josephson]
- 3. Right Whales Tell Their Own Stories: The Photo-Identification Catalog [Philip K. Hamilton, Amy R. Knowlton, and Marilyn K. Marx]
- 4. Surveying for Discovery, Science, and Management [Moira W. Brown, Scott D. Kraus, Christopher K. Slay, and Lance P. Garrison]
- 5. Enormous Carnivores, Microscopic Food, and a Restaurant That’s Hard to Find [Mark F. Baumgartner, Charles A. Mayo, and Robert D. Kenney]
- 6. High Investment, Low Return: The Strange Case of Reproduction in Eubalaena glacialis [Scott D. Kraus, Richard M. Pace III, and Timothy R. Frasier]
- 7. Right Whales Past and Present as Revealed by Their Genes [Timothy R. Frasier, Brenna A. Mcleod, Roxanne M. Gillett, Moira W. Brown, and Bradley N. White]
- 8. The Inner Whale: Hormones, Biotoxins, and Parasites [Rosalind M. Rolland, Kathleen E. Hunt, Gregory J. Doucette, Lora G. Rickard, and Samuel K. Wasser]
- 9. External Perspectives on Right Whale Health [Rosalind M. Rolland, Philip K. Hamilton, Marilyn K. Marx, Heather M. Pettis, Carolyn M. Angell, and Michael J. Moore]
- 10. Acoustic Communication: Social Sounds and the Potential Impacts of Noise [Susan E. Parks and Christopher W. Clark]
- 11. Listening to Their World: Acoustics for Monitoring and Protecting Right Whales in an Urbanized Ocean [Christopher W. Clark, Douglas Gillespie, Douglas P. Nowacek, and Susan E. Parks]
- 12. Right Whale Mortality: A Message from the Dead to the Living [Michael J. Moore, William A. Mclellan, Pierre-Yves Daoust, Robert K. Bonde, and Amy R. Knowlton]
- 13. The Entangled Lives of Right Whales and Fishermen: Can They Coexist? [Amanda J. Johnson, Scott D. Kraus, John F. Kenney, and Charles A. Mayo]
- 14. Running the Gauntlet: Right Whales and Vessel Strikes [Amy R. Knowlton and Moira W. Brown]
- 15. Right Whales and Climate Change: Facing the Prospect of a Greenhouse Future [Robert D. Kenney]
- 16. The Big Picture: Modeling Right Whales in Space and Time [Lance P. Garrison]
- 17. The Urban Whale Syndrome [Scott D. Kraus and Rosalind M. Rolland]
- Appendix A: Permit Information
- Appendix B: Opportunistic Contributors to the Right Whale Catalog
- Appendix C: Other Resources
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Index
The Urban Whale
North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads
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Publication Date: 03/30/2010
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