Blue whale habitat and prey in the California Channel Islands

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 8-9, 1998, Pages 1781-1801

  Fiedler, Paul C ^a   Reilly, Stephen B ^a   Hewitt, Roger P ^a   Demer, David ^a   Philbrick, Valerie A ^a   Smith, Susan ^a   Armstrong, Wesley ^a   Croll, Donald A ^b   Tershy, Bernie R ^b   Mate, Bruce R ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; DIET; HABITAT USE; WHALE;

CALIFORNIA CHANNEL ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; EUPHAUSIA PACIFICA; EUPHAUSIACEA; THYSANOESSA SPINIFERA;

EID: 0032143198     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(98)80017-9     Document Type: Article

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