9780520270572-0520270576-Return to the Sea: The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals

Return to the Sea: The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals

ISBN-13: 9780520270572
ISBN-10: 0520270576
Edition: First Edition
Author: Annalisa Berta
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520270572
ISBN-10: 0520270576
Edition: First Edition
Author: Annalisa Berta
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover 224 pages

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Return to the Sea: The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals (ISBN-13: 9780520270572 and ISBN-10: 0520270576), written by authors Annalisa Berta, was published by University of California Press in 2012. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Animals (Nature & Ecology, Biological Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Return to the Sea: The Life and Evolutionary Times of Marine Mammals (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Animals books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Return to the Sea portrays the life and evolutionary times of marine mammals—from giant whales and sea cows that originated 55 million years ago to the deep-diving elephant seals and clam-eating walruses of modern times. This fascinating account of the origin of various marine-mammal lineages—some extinct, others extant but threatened—is for the nonspecialist. Against a backdrop of geologic time and changing climates and geography, this volume takes evolution as its unifying principle to help us to understand today’s diversity of marine mammals and their responses to environmental challenges. Annalisa Berta explains current controversies and explores patterns of change now taking place, such as shifting food webs and predator-prey relationships, habitat degradation, global warming, and the effects of humans on marine-mammal communities.
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