Sea otter population status and the process of recovery from the 1989 'Exxon Valdez' oil spill

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 241, Issue , 2002, Pages 237-253

  Bodkin, James L ^a   Ballachey, B E ^a   Dean, T A ^a   Fukuyama, A K ^a   Jewett, S C ^a   McDonald, L ^a   Monson, D H ^a   O'Clair, C E ^a   VanBlaricom, G R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Biomarker; Enhydra lutris; Food; Mortality; P450; Reproduction; Survival

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; OIL SPILL; PINNIPED; POLLUTION EFFECT;

ALASKA; PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND; UNITED STATES;

CARNIVORA; ENHYDRA LUTRIS; LUTRINAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 0037019851     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps241237     Document Type: Article

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