Boyd, I: Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation A Handbook

Preface; 1: Nick Gales, David Johnston, Charles Littnan, and Ian L. Boyd: Ethics in Marine Mammal Science; 2: Tom Loughlin, Louise Cunningham, Nick Gales, Randall Wells, and Ian Boyd: Marking and Capturing; 3: Philip S. Hammond: Estimating the Abundance of Marine Mammals; 4: Jason Matthiopoulos and Geert Aarts: The Spatial Analysis of Marine Mammal Abundance; 5: W. Don Bowen and Simon Northridge: Morphometrics, Age Estimation, and Growth; 6: Jason Baker, Andrew Westgate, and Tomo Eguchi: Vital Rates and Population Dynamics; 7: Ailsa J. Hall, Frances M.D. Gulland, John A. Hammond, and Lori H. Schwacke: 4 Epidemiology, Disease, and Health Assessment; 8: Sara J. Iverson, Carol E. Sparling, Terrie Williams, Shelley L. C. Lang, and W. Don Bowen: Measurement of Individual and Population Energetics of Marine Mammals; 9: D.J. Tollit, G.J. Pierce, K.A. Hobson, W.D. Bowen, and S.J. Iverson: Diet; 10: Bernie McConnell, Mike Fedak, Sascha Hooker, and Toby Patterson: Telemetry; 11: Mark A. Hindell, Dan Crocker, Yoshihisa Mori, and Peter Tyack: Foraging Behaviour; 12: Hal Whitehead and Sofie Van Parijs: Studying Marine Mammal Social Systems; 13: W.D. Bowen, J.D. Baker, I.L. Boyd, J.A. Estes, J.K.B. Ford, S.D Kraus, S.D., D. Siniff, I. Stirling, and R. Wells: Long-term Studies; 14: Barbara L. Taylor, Karen Martien, and Phillip Morin: Identifying Units to Conserve using Genetic Data; 15: John Harwood: Approaches to Management; 16: Andrew J. Read: Conservation Biology; References; Index

Dr. Don Bowen is a Senior Biologist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor at Dalhousie University and a former Division Chief of the Marine Fish Division at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography and former editor of Marine Mammal Science. He has focussed most of his research since the early 1980s on north Atlantic pinnipeds, especially grey seals.He is one of the world's leading marine mammal population ecologists.

"With 70 pages of references, this excellent book will have value for a wide range of biologists not only those studying mammals, and will quickly take its place alongside Southwood's Ecological Methods as a dependable research tool." -- Bulletin of the British Ecological Society 2011

"The handbook deserves a place on the shelf of any serious student of marine mammals, but is so well put together, that anyone studying wildlife ecology and conservation would benefit from this practical guide." -- Ecology