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Full Description
This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to conservation issues related to the marine otter (Lontra felina). The main goal is the systematization of different research efforts on this species, to contribute with conservation policy design and implementation. The authors contribute their achievements in conservation, ecology, status in freshwater habitats, habitat fragmentation effects, interaction with human activities and recommendations for an effective conservation of the species. The book is directed first and foremost towards researchers and authorities and people involved in conservation tasks of otters.
Despite in the last decades some studies and efforts on Lontra felina has carried in Peru and Chile, some information can be gathered to fill the gaps on marine otter conservation in Peru. That is the main goal of the book Conservation of Marine Otter. Moreover, the publication will be the first book published at international level on Lontra felina with the participation of several experimented researchers on this threatened and endemic species.
Contents
1. 1. Environmental components of the marine otter habitat of Peru.- 2. The Natural History of Marine Otter (Lontra felina).- 3. Trophic Ecology of the Marine Otter (Lontra felina): Review, Quantitative Analyses and Population Implications.- 4. Marine otter conservation in Peru.- 5. Conserving marine otter Lontra felina in the one of oldest marine protected areas of Southeast Pacific.- 6. The marine otter in continental and Andean habitat.- 7. Legal framework and its application for the conservation of the marine otter in Chile and Peru.- 8. Marine Otter (Lontra felina¸Molina 1782) conservation in Chile.
