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Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems

James Estes

Abstract

This 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. The book 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 modelling, and historical data, the chapters present perspectives from ecology, population biology, physiology, genetics, evolutionary history, ocean biogeography, economics, culture, and law, among other disciplines. Throughout, chapoters invest ... More

Keywords: whales, whaling, ocean ecosystems, industrial whaling, oceans, ocean biogeography, evolutionary history, ecology, population biology, physiology

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2007 Print ISBN-13: 9780520248847
Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1525/california/9780520248847.001.0001

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James Estes, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

[UNTITLED]

List of Contributors

List of Tables

List of Figures

Preface

One Introduction

JAMES A. ESTES

Background

Two Whales, Interaction Webs, and Zero-Sum Ecology

ROBERT T. PAINE

Three Lessons from Land Present and Past Signs of Ecological Decay and the Overture to Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinctio

C. JOSH DONLAN, PAUL S. MARTIN, and GARY W. ROEMER

Four When Ecological Pyramids Were Upside Down

JAMES A. ESTES, DOUGLASP DEMASTER, DANIEL F. DOAK, TERRIE M. WILLIAMS, and ROBERT L. BROWNELL JR

Five Pelagic Ecosystem Response to a Century of Commercial Fishing and Whaling

TIMOTHY E. ESSINGTON

Six Evidence for Bottom-Up Control of Upper-Trophic-Level Marine Populations

GEORGE L. HUNT JR.

Whales and Whaling

Seven Evolutionary Patterns in Cetacea Fishing Up Prey Size through Deep Time

DAVID R. LINDBERG, and NICHOLAS D. PYENSON

Eight A Taxonomy of World Whaling

RANDALL R. REEVES, and TIM D. SMITH

Nine The History of Whales Read from DNA

STEPHEN R. PALUMBI, and JOE ROMAN

Ten Changes in Marine Mammal Biomass in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands Region before and after the Period of Commercial Whaling

BETE PFISTER, and DOUGLAS P. DEMASTER

Eleven Industrial Whaling in the North Pacific Ocean 1952–1978

ERIC M. DANNER, MATTHEW J. KAUFFMAN, and ROBERT L. BROWNELL JR.

Twelve Worldwide Distribution and Abundance of Killer Whales

KARIN A. FORNEY, and PAUL R. WADE

Thirteen The Natural History and Ecology of Killer Whales

LANCE G. BARRETT-LENNARD, and KATHY A. HEISE

Fourteen Killer Whales as Predators of Large Baleen Whales and Sperm Whales

RANDALL R. REEVES, JOEL BERGER, and PHILLIP J. CLAPHAM

Process and Theory

Fifteen Physiological and Ecological Consequences of Extreme Body Size in Whales

TERRIE M. WILLIAMS

Sixteen Ecosystem Impact of the Decline of Large Whales in the North Pacific

DONALD A. CROLL, RAPHAEL KUDELA, and BERNIE R. TERSHY

Seventeen The Removal of Large Whales from the Southern Ocean

LISA T. BALLANCE, ROBERT L. PITMAN, ROGER P. HEWITT, DONALD B. SINIFF, WAYNE Z. TRIVELPIECE, PHILLIP J. CLAPHAM, and ROBERT L. BROWNELL JR

Eighteen Great Whales as Prey Using Demography and Bioenergetics to Infer Interactions in Marine Mammal Communities

DANIEL F. DOAK, TERRIE M. WILLIAMS, and JAMES A. ESTES

Nineteen Whales and Whaling in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea Oceanographic Insights and Ecosystem Impacts

ALAN M. SPRINGER, GUS B. VAN VLIET, JOHN F. PIATT, and ERIC M. DANNER

Twenty Legacy of Industrial Whaling

TREVOR A. BRANCH, and TERRIE M. WILLIAMS

Twenty-One Predator Diet Breadth and Prey Population Dynamics

MARC MANGEL, and NICHOLAS WOLF

Twenty-Two Bigger is Better

CRAIG R. SMITH

Case Studies

TWENTY-THREE Gray Whales in the Bering and Chukchi Seas

RAYMOND C. HIGHSMITH, KENNETH O COYLE, BODIL A BLUHM, and BRENDA KONAR

Twenty-Four Whales, Whaling, and Ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean

PHILLIP J. CLAPHAM, and JASON S. LINK

Twenty-Five Sperm Whales in Ocean Ecosystems

HAL WHITEHEAD

Twe Nty-Six Ecosystem Effects of Fishing and Whaling in the North Pacific and Atlantic Oceans

BORIS WORM, HEIKE K LOTZE, and RANSOM A. MYERS

Twenty-Seven Potential Influences of Whaling on the Status and Trends of Pinniped Populations

DANIEL P. COSTA, MICHAEL J. WEISE, and JOHN P.Y. ARNOULD

SOCIAL CONTEXT

Twenty-Eight The Dynamic Between Social Systems and Ocean Ecosystems

DANIEL W. BROMLEY

Twenty-Nine Whaling, Law, and Culture

MICHAEL K. ORBACH

Overview and Synthesis

Thirty Whales Are Big and It Matters

PETER KAREIVA, CHRISTOPHER YUAN-FARRELL, and CASEY O’CONNOR

Thirty-One Retrospection and Review

J. A. ESTES, D. P. DEMASTER, R. L. BROWNELL JR, D. F. DOAK, and T. M. WILLIAMS

End Matter

Index