University of St Andrews
 
 

MRes in Marine Mammal Science

Reading





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Tutors will recommend books for particular courses. Here are some that we consider will be useful to all our students:

  • Hoelzel: Marine Mammal Biology - An Evolutionary Approach

  • Boyd et al: Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques

  • Matthiopoulos: How to be a Quantitative Ecologist: the 'A to R' guide of Green Mathematics and Statistics 

Additional useful text books are:
  • Reynolds III and Rommel: Biology of Marine Mammals
  • Boyd et al: Top Predators in the Marine Ecosystems – Their Role in Monitoring and Management
  • Perrin et al.: Encylopedia of Marine Mammals
  • Fox: An R and S-plus companion to applied regression