Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology

Mammals have incredible biological diversity, showing extreme flexibility in eco-morphology, physiology, life history and behavior across their evolutionary history. Undoubtedly, mammals play an important role in ecosystems by providing essential services such as regulating insect populations, seed dispersal and pollination and act as indicators of general ecosystem health. However, the macroecological and macroevolutionary processes underpinning past and present. This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge of marine mammals with a particular emphasis on their physiological adaptations to the aquatic environment and its implications for the conservation of the numerous species that populate marine ecosystems. The book is intended to review and synthesize these new studies, exploring the past and present ecology and evolution of mammalian biodiversity, and use these findings to speculate about the mammals of our future.

Print ISBN: 9781682517291 | $155 | 2021 | Hardcover

Subject: Life Science

Editor: Grzegorz Watanabe