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Resurgence of an Apex Marine Predator and the Decline in Prey Body Size

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Title Resurgence of an Apex Marine Predator and the Decline in Prey Body Size
Creator Ohlberger, Jan Schindler, Daniel E. Ward, Eric J. Walsworth, Timothy E. Essington, Timothy E.
Description In light of recent recoveries of marine mammal populations worldwide and heightened concern about their impacts on marine food webs and global fisheries, it has become increasingly important to understand the potential impacts of large marine mammal predators on prey populations and their life-history traits. In coastal waters of the northeast Pacific Ocean, marine mammals have increased in abundance over the past 40 to 50 y, including fish-eating killer whales that feed primarily on Chinook...
Date 2019-12-16T08:00:00Z
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Identifier https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/wats_facpub/1103 info:doi/10.1073/pnas.1910930116 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/wats_facpub/article/2125/viewcontent/Apex_Marine_Predator.pdf
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Source Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications
Publisher Hosted by Utah State University Libraries
Contributor National Academy of Sciences
Subject age and size structure fisheries life-history traits predation evolutionary change Earth Sciences Water Resource Management

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