Global warming and increasing population densities: a prescription for seal plagues

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 280-284

  Lavigne, D M ^a   Schmitz, O J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MASS MORTALITY; SEAL;

NORTH SEA;

PHOCA GROENLANDICA; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA; MAMMALIA;

ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MAMMAL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEAL; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

EID: 0025197363     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0025-326X(90)90590-5     Document Type: Article

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