Author : William Eugene Evans
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
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Book Description
The first book on noninvasive approach to the study of animal populations in nature. The frequencies of the detectable individual variations (structural, behavioral, acoustics, etc.) give possibility to study population structure and dynamics, interrelationships between populations, understand phylogeographic (micro-evolutionary) patways. The historical and analytical review of the studies of color pattern, acoustic, behavior and the structural features (including many qualitative variations of nose', ears, tooth, eyes, tail, dermatoglyphics and other variations) of the whales, dolphins, seals and many other mammalian groups. Discuss the phenetic' study (the frequencies of qualitative detectable variations, - phenes, - which reflect the genetic characteristics of population) as the powerful new methodology of noninvasive study of the natural populations. Dr. William E. Evans is a Professor Emeritus of the Marine Biology Department, Texas A&M University. He was director of the Sea World Research Center (San Diego, USA), Chair of the US Marine Mammal Commission, Director of the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Undersecretary of Commerce and head of NOAA. Dr. Evans - authors of several hundreds papers in marine mammal acoustics, population biology, remote sensing technology and fisheries. He is Chief Editor of the American Midland Naturalist. Prof. Alexey V. Yablokov is the Councilor to the Russian Academy of Science, as well as President of the Center for Russian Environmental Policy in Moscow. He is the author of several hundred publications on mammals, on population, evolutionary and conservation biology, including "Whales and Dolphins" (1972), "Variability of Mammals" (1974), "Population Biology" (1987), "Phenetics" (1986), "Evolutionary Theory" (1997), "Pesticides - The Chemical Weapon That Kills Life" (2004). He is also Vice President of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).