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Effects of Whaling on the Structure of the Southern Ocean Food Web: Insights on the “Krill Surplus” from Ecosystem Modelling

The aim of this study was to examine the ecological plausibility of the “krill surplus” hypothesis and the effects of whaling on the Southern Ocean food web using mass-balance ecosystem modelling. The depletion trajectory and unexploited biomass of each rorqual population in the Antarctic was recons...

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Autores principales: Surma, Szymon, Pakhomov, Evgeny A., Pitcher, Tony J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4269391/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25517505
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0114978