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The Impact of Whaling on the Ocean Carbon Cycle: Why Bigger Was Better

BACKGROUND: Humans have reduced the abundance of many large marine vertebrates, including whales, large fish, and sharks, to only a small percentage of their pre-exploitation levels. Industrial fishing and whaling also tended to preferentially harvest the largest species and largest individuals with...

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Autores principales: Pershing, Andrew J., Christensen, Line B., Record, Nicholas R., Sherwood, Graham D., Stetson, Peter B.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2928761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20865156
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012444