Declining carrying capacity in the Bering Sea: Isotopic evidence from whale baleen

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 459-462

  Schell, Donald M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CARRYING CAPACITY; ECOSYSTEM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

BERING SEA;

AVES; BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034060741     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0459     Document Type: Article

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