Sources of information about
marine mammals:
* = on 2-hr reserve at Killam library
General books on marine mammals:
Berta, A., and J. L. Sumich.
1999. Marine mammals. Evolutionary biology. San Diego:
Academic Press. QL 713.2 B47 1999 *
Bonner, W. N. 1989. Whales of the world. Facts on File.
QL 737 C4 B67 1989
Evans, P. G. H. 1987. The natural history of whales
and dolphins. Facts on File, London. QL 737 C4
E93 1987 *
Gaskin, D. E. 1982. The ecology of whales and dolphins. William Heinemann,
London. QL 737 C4 G24 1982 *
Jefferson, T. A., S. Leatherwood, and M. A. Webber.
1993. Marine mammals of the world. UNEP, Rome. QL 713.2 J43 1993
King, J. E. 1983. Seals of the world. Comstock.
QL 737 P6 K5 1983 *
Leatherwood, S., and R. R. Reeves.
1983. The Sierra Club handbook of whales and dolphins. Sierra
Club Books, San Francisco.
Reeves, R.R., et al. 2003.
Dolphins, whales, and porpoises: 2002-2010 conservation action plan for the world’s cetaceans. IUCN, Switzerland
Reeves, R. R., B. S. Stewart, and S.
Leatherwood. 1992. The Sierra Club handbook of seals
and sirenians. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco. QL
737 P6 R44 1992
Richardson, W.J., et al. 1995. Marine
mammals and noise. Academic Press. QL713.2 M27
1995 *
Ridgway, S. H., and R. Harrison, editors. 1981-94. Handbook of marine mammals. Volume
1-6. Academic Press, London. QL 713.2 H354 v.1-6 *
Riedman, M. 1990. The pinnipeds.
QL737 P6 R54 1990 *
U.S. Marine Mammal Commission. 1999. Marine mammals and persistent ocean contaminants. QL713.2 U55 *
National Research Council (US). 2005. Marine mammal populations and ocean noise: determining when noise
causes biologically significant effects. QC 242.2 N35 2005*
Important edited collections:
P. G. H. Evans and J. A. Raga, editors. 2002. Marine mammals. Biology and conservation.
Kluwer, Amsterdam. QL 713.2 M354 2001 *
R. J. Harrison, editor. 1972. Functional anatomy of
marine mammals. Volume 3. Academic Press, New York. QL
713,2 H37 v.1-2.
L. H. Herman, editor. 1980. Cetacean Behavior. Wiley. QL 737 C4 C37 1980
A. R. Hoelzel, editor. 2002. Marine mammal biology; an
evolutionary approach. Blackwell, Oxford. QL713.2 M37 2002 *
A. C. Huntley et al., editors. 1987. Marine mammal
energetics. Society for Marine Mammalogy. QL 713.2 A66
1987
J. Mann et al., editors. 2000. Cetacean societies. Chicago University Press. QL 737 C4 C39 2000 *
K. S. Norris, editor. 1966. Whales, dolphins and
porpoises. University of California Press, Berkeley. QL 737 C4 I5 1963
R. Payne, editor. 1983. Communication and the behavior
of whales. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. QL737 C4
C58 1983
W. F. Perrin, B. WÜrsig, and J. G. M. Thewissen. 2002. Encyclopedia of marine mammals. Academic Press, San Diego. QL 701.2 E53 2002. *
K. Pryor and K. S. Norris, editors. 1991.
Dolphin societies. University of California Press. QL
737 C432 D653 1991
D. Renouf, editor. 1991. The behaviour of
pinnipeds. Chapman and Hall. QL 737 P6 B44 1991
J. E. Reynolds and S.A. Rommel, editors. 1999. Biology of marine mammals. Smithsonian Institution Press. QL 713.2 B54 1999 *
S. H. Ridgway, editor. 1972. Mammals of
the sea; biology and medicine. Thomas Press. QL 713.2 R53
W. E. Schevill, editor. 1974. The Whale
Problem. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
QL 737 C4 I48 1971
R. J. Schusterman, J. A. Thomas, and F. G.
Wood, editors.
1986. Dolphin cognition and behavior. Erlbaum. QL 737
C432 D65 1986
M. P. Simmonds, and J. D. Hutchinson,
editors. 1996. The
conservation of whales and dolphins. Wiley. QL737 C4
C598 1996 *
J. A. Thomas, and R. A. Kastelein,
editors. 1990. Sensory abilities of cetaceans. Plenum Press.
QL 737 C4 S445 1990
J. A. Thomas, R. A. Kastelein, and A. Y.
Supin, editors. 1992. Marine mammal sensory systems. Plenum
Press. QL 713.2 M26 1992
J. R. Twiss et al. 1999, editors. Conservation and
management of marine mammals. Smithsonian Institution
Press. QL 713.2 C65 1999 *
H. E. Winn and B. L. Olla, editors. 1979. Behavior of marine animals. Volume 3. Plenum, New York. QL 121
W5 v.3
Important scientific journals:
Marine Mammal Science QL 713.2 M34
Canadian Journal of Zoology QL 1 C22
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic
Sciences QH 301 C212
Journal of Mammalogy QL 700 J86
Fishery Bulletin SH 11 A3
Canadian Field Naturalist (esp. COSEWIC
"Status Reports") QH1 C21
Reports of the International Whaling
Commission SH 381 I484
Aquatic Mammals QL737 C432 A7
Internet:
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WWW resources :
Lots of links! :
http://netvet.wustl.edu/marine.htm
http://whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/interwhale.html
http://www.rockisland.com/~orcasurv/links.htm
http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/MarineMammals/
Government sites:
Canada Department of Fisheries and
Oceans: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/seal-phoque/index_e.htm
Sea Mammal Research Unit: http://smub.st-and.ac.uk/
(U.K. government research unit)
U.S. National Marine Mammal
Laboratory: http://nmml.afsc.noaa.gov/
U.S. National Marine Fisheries
Service: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/mar_mammals.htm
Political sites (informative, but
definitely not unbiased) :
Seal Conservation Society: http://www.pinnipeds.org/main.htm
(very useful for literature)
International Marine Mammal Association : http://www.imma.org/
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society : http://www.wdcs.org/
High North Alliance
: http://www.highnorth.no/
Whales on the Web: http://www.users.voicenet.com/~sciffy/whale/links.html
Jobs with marine mammals: