CIESM Workshop Monographs, n°25:

 

Investigating the roles of cetaceans in marine ecosystems -
Venice (Italy), 28-31 January 2004, 143 p. (417 refs.), 12 Euros.

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  • in full (with illustrations) (4 Mo),
  • or only the Executive Summary (1 Mo).

    Contents

    I - Executive summary
    1 - Introduction
    2 - Spatial structuring of the Mediterranean through oceanographic processes
    3 - Mediterranean cetaceans
    4 - Methods for the study of cetacean trophodynamics
    5 - Conservation and management issues

    II - Workshop communications

    Introductory remarks
    - Preliminary thoughts.
    Sidney Holt

    Methods
    - Methods for dietary studies on marine mammals.
    Graham Pierce

    - Modelling interactions between marine mammals and fisheries: model structures, assumptions and data requirements.
    John Harwood

    - Modeling food webs: a bioenergetic-allometric approach.
    Mariano Koen-Alonso

    Examples from the real world
    - Trophic levels of marine mammals and overlap in resource utilization between marine mammals and fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea.
    Kostas Stergiou

    - Study of dietary overlap between small cetaceans and fisheries in the Bay of Biscay from stomach content analysis.
    Claire Pusineri

    - Assessing trophic interactions of some dolphins in the Balearic subbasin, Western Mediterranean Sea.
    Carmen Blanco

    - Investigating food-web interactions between Mediterranean coastal dolphins and fisheries in "natural laboratories".
    Giovanni Bearzi

    - Summer fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) distribution in relation to oceanographic conditions : implications for conservation.
    Christophe Guinet

    - Whales, whaling and ecosystem change in the Antarctic and Eastern Bering Sea: insights from ecosystem models.
    Andrew W. Trites

    - Interactions between fishing activity and cetaceans that occur in the Southeastern Ligurian-Northern Tyrrhenian Sea.
    Alvaro J. Abella

    Insight for management
    - Marine reserves, ecological theory and the role of higher predators in marine ecosystem management.
    Sascha K. Hooker

    - Potential competition with fisheries? The case of sperm whales and beaked whales.
    Robert L. Brownell

    Navigating in a variable environment
    - The cetacean world as seen by physical and biological oceanographers.
    Claude Millot

    III - Bibliographic references

    IV - List of participants

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