Recent Mammals of Alaska.
From the polar bear and the gray wolf to the walrus and river otter, there are 115 species of mammals in Alaska that have never been fully catalogued until now. Biologists Joseph A. Cook and Stephen O. MacDonald have compiled here the first comprehensive guide to all of Alaska's mammals, big an...
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Fairbanks :
University of Alaska Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Brief History of Mammalogy and Mammal Collectors in Alaska; Appreciating the Limits of Our Knowledge of Alaska's Mammalian Diversity; Beringian Coevolution Project; Specimen Representation: Time and Space; Study Area; Regional Overviews; Alaska's Island Archipelagos; Materials and Methods; Fieldwork; Collaborations; Additional Museum Studies; Laboratory Studies; Museum Specimens; Accounts of Species and Subspecies; The Recent Mammals of Alaska; Faunal Composition; List of Species; Order PROBOSCIDEA; Order SIRENIA; Order PRIMATES.
- Order RODENTIAOrder LAGOMORPHA; Order SORICOMORPHA; Order CHIROPTERA; Order CARNIVORA; Order ARTIODACTYLA; Order CETACEA; Literature Cited; Appendices; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Appendix 4; Appendix 5; Appendix 6; Appendix 7; Appendix 8; Appendix 9; Appendix 10; Appendix 11; Appendix 12; Index.