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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...
Autores principales: | Wasser, Samuel K., Lundin, Jessica I., Ayres, Katherine, Seely, Elizabeth, Giles, Deborah, Balcomb, Kenneth, Hempelmann, Jennifer, Parsons, Kim, Booth, Rebecca |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2017
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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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