Supplement Issue Available
Marine Mammals and Climate Change
Ecological Society of America - "Ecological Applications"
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The Ecological Society of America journal "Ecological Applications"
announces the publication of a supplement issue on arctic marine mammals
and climate change.
In March 2008, "Ecological Applications" published a supplement to
Volume 18, Issue 2, examining the implications of climate change for
arctic marine mammals. The supplement was guest edited by Henry P.
Huntington and Sue E. Moore and funded by the U.S. Marine Mammal
Commission.
The supplement contains the following articles:
"Climate of the Arctic Marine Environment"
John E. Walsh, International Arctic Research Center, University of
Alaska Fairbanks
"The Evolution of Arctic Marine Mammals"
C.R. Harington, Canadian Museum of Nature (Paleobiology)
"Zooarchaeology and Arctic Marine Mammal Biogeography, Conservation, and
Management"
Maribeth S. Murray, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska
Fairbanks
"Climate Change and the Molecular Ecology of Arctic Marine Mammals"
Gregory O'Corry-Crowe, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA
"Regional Variability in Food Availability for Arctic Marine Mammals"
Bodil A. Bluhm and Rolf Gradinger, Institute of Marine Science,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
"Quantifying the Sensitivity of Arctic Marine Mammals to Climate-Induced
Habitat Change"
Kristin L. Laidre, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources; Ian
Stirling, Canadian Wildlife Service; Lloyd F. Lowry, School of Fisheries
and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Oystein Wiig,
Natural History Museum, University of Oslo; Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen,
Greenland Institute of Natural Resources; and Steven H. Ferguson,
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
"Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Marine Mammal Health"
Kathy A. Burek, Alaska Veterinary Pathology Services; Frances M.D.
Gulland, The Marine Mammal Center; and Todd M. O'Hara, Institute of
Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
"Marine Mammal Harvests and Other Interactions with Humans"
Grete K. Hovelsrud, Meghan McKenna, Centre for International Climate and
Environmental Research - Oslo; and Henry P. Huntington, Huntington
Consulting
"Sustaining a Healthy Human-Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)
Relationship in a Changing Environment"
Vera Metcalf, Eskimo Walrus Commission, and Martin Robards, Department
of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks
"Arctic Marine Mammals and Climate Change: Impacts and Resilience"
Sue E. Moore, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, and Henry P.
Huntington, Huntington Consulting
"Conservation of Arctic Marine Mammals Faced with Climate Change"
Timothy J. Ragen, Marine Mammal Commission; Henry P. Huntington,
Huntington Consulting; and Grete K. Hovelsrud, Centre for International
Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo
The full text is available online and can be downloaded for free.
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