Marine Mammals

Part I: EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY Phylogeny, Taxonomy and ClassificationPinniped Evolution and SystematicsCetacean Evolution and SystematicsSirenians and Other Marine Mammals: Evolution and SystematicsEvolution and Geography Part II: EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIORIntegumentary, Sensory and Urinary SystemsMusculoskeletal System and LocomotionEnergetics

Respiration, diving and breathhold physiologySound production for communication, echolocation and preyDiet, Foraging Structures, and StrategiesReproductive Structures, Strategies and PatternsPopulation Structure and DynamicsPart III: Exploitation, Conservation, and ManagementExploitation, Conservation, and ManagementAppendix: Classification of Marine Mammals For families of marine mammals: diagnosis, definition, distribution, fossil history, content (species level)

Annalisa Berta is Professor of Biology in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University, San Diego, California and a Research Associate at the San Diego Natural History Museum in San Diego, California and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. She is an evolutionary biologist who for the last 30 years has been studying the anatomy, evolution and systematics of fossil and living marine mammals, especially pinnipeds and whales. She is a past President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and former Senior Editor of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and Associate Editor of Marine Mammal Science. She has written 100 scientific papers and several books for the specialist as well as non-scientist including Return to the Sea: The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals, 2012, (University of California Press) and the forthcoming book (summer, 2015) Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises: a natural history and species guide (University of Chicago Press).James Sumich is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Grossmont College and is the author of a popular book on gray whales. He has conducted research on gray whales from British Columbia to Baja California for four decades and has taught marine mammal course for nearly that long. His research has focused on the ecological physiology of baleen whales, especially the energetics of their seasonal fasting migrations.