Biosphere Conservation for Nature, Wildlife, and Humans

Vol.1 No.2 1998 October

CONTENTS

Reviews & Essays:

• Prospects for conservation of the Asiatic lion in India
  ………………… Asir Jawahar Thomas Johnsingh, Ravi Chellam, and Diwakar Sharma 81
• The Steller sea lion: a declining species
  ………………………………Thomas R. Loughlin 91

Original Papers:

• The Spanish wolf (Canis lupus signatus): a paradoxical case
  --- a preliminary report for 1996
  ………………………………Javier Castroviejo 99
• Geographic variation in the mitochondrial DNA of Steller sea lions:
• Haplotype diversity and endemism in the Kuril Islands
  ………………………………John W. Bickham, Thomas R. Loughlin, Jeffrey K. Wickliffe,
  and Vladimir N. Burkanov 107
• Preference of birds for undergrowth in a Tokyo suburban deciduous forest
  ………………………………Taku Maeda 119
• Seasonal selection of forages by red deer and roe deer in relation to availability and quality of forages in mixed forests, Tonghe, northeastern China
  ………………………Huapeng Chen, Feng Li, Zhongwu Sun, Jianzhang Ma, Huai Wang,
  Liyang Luo, and Fei Li 129
• Diet of Steller sea lions off the coast of Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan
  ………………………………Yoko Goto and Kenji Shimazaki 141
• Development of the external morphology, skull and canines of Steller sea lions
  ………………………………Takeomi Isono 149
• Correction for the misidentification of a shrew in Sakhalin by Abe et al. (1997), by analysis of the full nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene
  ………………………………Satoshi Ohdachi 161

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