Population growth is limited by nutritional impacts on pregnancy success in endangered Southern Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca)

The Southern Resident killer whale population (Orcinus orca) was listed as endangered in 2005 and shows little sign of recovery. These fish eating whales feed primarily on endangered Chinook salmon. Population growth is constrained by low offspring production for the number of reproductive females i...

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Autores principales: Wasser, Samuel K., Lundin, Jessica I., Ayres, Katherine, Seely, Elizabeth, Giles, Deborah, Balcomb, Kenneth, Hempelmann, Jennifer, Parsons, Kim, Booth, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28662095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179824

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5491047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28662095
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179824

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