Sea Otter Conservation: Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration offers the most updated and revised ecological knowledge for conserving sea otters and their coastal habitats. As sea otters are good indicators of ocean health, they are also keystone species, offering a stabilizing effect on ecosystems, controlling sea urchin populations that can damage kelp forests and thus curbing coastal erosion. This book synthesizes the important relationship between sea otters and conservation of themselves as well as vital marine ecosystems.
Written by experts in the field, this book is structured into two sections to focus first on the latest data, practices, and hands-on research for conserving coastal ecosystems. This section offers links between sea otter presence and increased kelp, seagrass, and geological conservation. The second section focuses on the sea otter specifically, providing up-to-date research, data, and case studies regarding their genetics, habitats, and impacts of climate change.
Sea Otter Conservation: Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration is a vital new edition for marine biologists, conservationists, and zoologists studying sea otters and their environmental importance.
1. Introduction - p. 21 2. Sea otters and rocky reefs: A geographic perspective - p. 25 3. Into the past: The evolutionary effects of sea otters on rocky reefs - p. 43 4. Into the future: Sea otter conservation and rocky reefs - p. 46 5. Chapter 3. The role of sea otters in seagrass and salt marsh communities - p. 69 6. Chapter 4. Sea otters in mixed sediment habitats - p. 97 7. Chapter 5. Sea otter-mediated linkages among oceanic, nearshore, and terrestrial ecosystems - p. 133 8. Chapter 6. A catastrophic and unintended experiment: Revising our understanding of sea otters and their social and ecological importance based on a system in transition - p. 165 9. Chapter 7. Monitoring sea otter population recovery from the maritime fur trade - p. 203 10. Chapter 8. The intersection of individual space use and landscape-level geography and their defining influence on sea otter conservation - p. 235 11. Chapter 9. What drives sea otter population growth and recovery: A large-scale perspective - p. 269 12. Chapter 10. Insights from molecular methods into past and present sea otter populations - p. 305 13. Chapter 11. Reintroductions and restoring nearshore ecosystems—the Elakha Alliance: A new approach to sea otter conservation - p. 339 14. Chapter 12. Envisioning sea otter recovery in the 21st century - p. 363 15. Index - p. 375
Sea Otter Conservation: Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration offers the most updated and revised ecological knowledge for conserving sea otters and their coastal habitats. As sea otters are good indicators of ocean health, they are also keystone species, offering a stabilizing effect on ecosystems, controlling sea urchin populations that can damage kelp forests and thus curbing coastal erosion. This book synthesizes the important relationship between sea otters and conservation of themselves as well as vital marine ecosystems.
Written by experts in the field, this book is structured into two sections to focus first on the latest data, practices, and hands-on research for conserving coastal ecosystems. This section offers links between sea otter presence and increased kelp, seagrass, and geological conservation. The second section focuses on the sea otter specifically, providing up-to-date research, data, and case studies regarding their genetics, habitats, and impacts of climate change.
Sea Otter Conservation: Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration is a vital new edition for marine biologists, conservationists, and zoologists studying sea otters and their environmental importance.
1. Introduction - p. 21 2. Sea otters and rocky reefs: A geographic perspective - p. 25 3. Into the past: The evolutionary effects of sea otters on rocky reefs - p. 43 4. Into the future: Sea otter conservation and rocky reefs - p. 46 5. Chapter 3. The role of sea otters in seagrass and salt marsh communities - p. 69 6. Chapter 4. Sea otters in mixed sediment habitats - p. 97 7. Chapter 5. Sea otter-mediated linkages among oceanic, nearshore, and terrestrial ecosystems - p. 133 8. Chapter 6. A catastrophic and unintended experiment: Revising our understanding of sea otters and their social and ecological importance based on a system in transition - p. 165 9. Chapter 7. Monitoring sea otter population recovery from the maritime fur trade - p. 203 10. Chapter 8. The intersection of individual space use and landscape-level geography and their defining influence on sea otter conservation - p. 235 11. Chapter 9. What drives sea otter population growth and recovery: A large-scale perspective - p. 269 12. Chapter 10. Insights from molecular methods into past and present sea otter populations - p. 305 13. Chapter 11. Reintroductions and restoring nearshore ecosystems—the Elakha Alliance: A new approach to sea otter conservation - p. 339 14. Chapter 12. Envisioning sea otter recovery in the 21st century - p. 363 15. Index - p. 375
