Biology of Marine Mammals (MSCI/BIOL.375)

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Journal Article Selections for Marine Mammals class, Fall 2007

 

Once you’ve signed up for your article on my door, immediately try to get the article from on-line or the CCU library.  If you can’t get it, come see me.  I have various ways to access most of these.

 

 

  1. LAIDRE, KRISTIN L. and RONALD J. JAMESON. JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 87(4):799-807. 2006. Foraging patterns and prey selection in an increasing and expanding sea otter population.

 

  1. GUENETTE, SYLVIE; SHEILA J. J. HEYMANS; VILLY CHRISTENSEN and ANDREW W. TRITES. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES 63(11):2495-2517. 2006. Ecosystem models show combined effects of fishing, predation, competition, and ocean productivity on Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska.

 

  1. PENDLETON, GREY W.; KENNETH W. PITCHER; LOWELL W. FRITZ; ANNE E. YORK; KIMBERLY L. RAUM-SURYAN; THOMAS R. LOUGHLIN; DONALD G. CALKINS; KELLY K. HASTINGS and THOMAS S. GELATT. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 84(8):1163-1172. 2006. Survival of Steller sea lions in Alaska: A comparison of increasing and decreasing populations.

 

  1. HANSEN, B. JOHAN L. and KARIN C. HARDING. JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH 56(4):329-337. 2006. On the potential impact of harbour seal predation on the cod population in the eastern North Sea.

 

  1. CARTER, SARAH K.; GLENN R. VANBLARICOM and BRIAN L. ALLEN. HYDROBIOLOGIA 579:233-249. 2007. Testing the generality of the trophic cascade paradigm for sea otters: A case study with kelp forests in northern Washington, USA.

 

  1. PACK, ADAM A. and LOUIS M. HERMAN. JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY 121(1):34-45. 2007. The dolphin's (Tursiops truncatus) understanding of human gazing and pointing: Knowing what and where.

 

  1. SANVITO, SIMONA; FILIPPO GALIMBERTI and EDWARD H. MILLER. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 85(2):207-220. 2007. Having a big nose: Structure, ontogeny, and function of the elephant seal proboscis.

 

  1. THIEMANN, G. W.; S. M. BUDGE; S. J. IVERSON and I. STIRLING. CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY 85(4):505-517. 2007. Unusual fatty acid biomarkers reveal age- and sex-specific foraging in polar bears (Ursus maritimus).

 

  1. WILSON, MARIA; ROGER T. HANLON; PETER L. TYACK and PETER T. MADSEN. BIOLOGY LETTERS 3(3):225-227. 2007. Intense ultrasonic clicks from echolocating toothed whales do not elicit anti-predator responses or debilitate the squid Loligo pealeii.

 

  1. CARAVEO-PATINO, JAVIER; KEITH JAVIER and LUIS SOTO. HYDROBIOLOGIA 586:17-25. 2007. Feeding ecology of gray whales inferred from stable-carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of baleen plates.

 

  1. HOELZEL, A. RUS; JODY HEY; MARILYN E. DAHLHEIM; COLIN NICHOLSON; VLADIMIR BURKANOV and NANCY BLACK. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 24(6):1407-1415. 2007. Evolution of population structure in a highly social top predator, the killer whale.

 

  1. YEATES, LAURA C.; TERRIE M. WILLIAMS and TRACI L. FINK. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 210(11):1960-1970. 2007. Diving and foraging energetics of the smallest marine mammal, the sea otter (Enhydra lutris).

 

  1. MORISAKA, T. and R. C. CONNOR. JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 20(4):1439-1458. 2007. Predation by killer whales (Orcinus orca) and the evolution of whistle loss and narrow-band high frequency clicks in odontocetes.

 

  1. WADE, PAUL R.; GEORGE M. WATTERS; TIM GERRODETTE and STEPHEN B. REILLY. MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES 343:1-14. 2007. Depletion of spotted and spinner dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific: Modeling hypotheses for their lack of recovery.

 

  1. HOUSER, DORIAN S. and JAMES J. FINNERAN. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 120(3):1713-1722. 2006. A comparison of underwater hearing sensitivity in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) determined by electrophysiological and behavioral methods.

 

  1. PONGANIS, P. J.; T. K. STOCKARD; D. H. LEVENSON; L. BERG and E. A. BARANOV. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 145(1):123-130. 2006. Intravascular pressure profiles in elephant seals: Hypotheses on the caval sphincter, extradural vein and venous return to the heart.

 

  1. SPITZ, JEROME; YANN ROUSSEAU and VINCENT RIDOUX. ESTUARINE, COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE 70(1-2):259-270. 2006. Diet overlap between harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin: An argument in favour of interference competition for food?

 

  1. ARAGONES, LEMNUEL V.; IVAN R. LAWLER; WILLIAM J. FOLEY and HELENE MARSH. OECOLOGIA (BERLIN) 149(4):635-647. 2006. Dugong grazing and turtle cropping: Grazing optimization in tropical seagrass systems?

 

  1. ARNASON, ULFUR; ANETTE GULLBERG; AXEL JANKE; MORGAN KULLBERG; NILES LEHMAN; EVGENY A. PETROV and RISTO VAINOLA. MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION 41(2):345-354. 2006. Pinniped phylogeny and a new hypothesis for their origin and dispersal.

 

  1. BOWEN, W. D.; S. J. IVERSON; J. I. MCMILLAN and D. J. BONESS. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 75(6):1340-1351. 2006. Reproductive performance in grey seals: Age-related improvement and senescence in a capital breeder.

 

  1. DARLING, JAMES D.; MEAGAN E. JONES and CHARLES P. NICKLIN. BEHAVIOUR 143(9):1051-1101. 2006. Humpback whale songs: Do they organize males during the breeding season?

 

  1. FITZGERALD, ERICH M. G. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 273(1604):2955-2963. 2006. A bizarre new toothed mysticete (Cetacea) from Australia and the early evolution of baleen whales.

 

  1. HARCOURT, R. G.; J. J. KINGSTON; M. G. CAMERON; J. R. WAAS and M. A. HINDELL. BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY 61(4):643-652. 2007. Paternity analysis shows experience, not age, enhances mating success in an aquatically mating pinniped, the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii).

 

  1. TRITES, A. W.; A. J. MILLER; H. D. G. MASCHNER; M. A. ALEXANDER; S. J. BOGRAD; J. A. CALDER; A. CAPOTONDI; K. O. COYLE; E. DI LORENZO; B. P. FINNEY; E. J. GREGR; C. E. GROSCH; S. R. HARE; G. L. HUNT, JR.; J. JAHNCKE; N. B. KACHEL; H.-J. KIM; et. al. FISHERIES OCEANOGRAPHY 16(1):46-67. 2007. Bottom-up forcing and the decline of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatas) in Alaska: Assessing the ocean climate hypothesis.

 

  1. AU, WHITLOW W. L.; KELLY J. BENOIT-BIRD and RONALD A. KASTELEIN. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 121(6):3954-3962. 2007. Modeling the detection range of fish by echolocating bottlenose dolphins and harbor porpoises.

 

  1. TARTARELLI, G. and M. BISCONTI. HUMAN EVOLUTION 21(3-4):275-287. 2007. Trajectories and constraints in brain evolution in primates and cetaceans.

 

 

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