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Critical Decline of the Eastern Caribbean Sperm Whale Population

Sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) populations were expected to rebuild following the end of commercial whaling. We document the decline of the population in the eastern Caribbean by tracing demographic changes of well-studied social units. We address hypotheses that, over a ten-year period of ded...

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Autores principales: Gero, Shane, Whitehead, Hal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27706153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162019