Colonization history of the Baltic harbor seals: Integrating archaeological, behavioral, and genetic data

Marine Mammal Science

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 695-716

  Härkönen, Tero ^a,e   Harding, Karin C ^b   Goodman, Simon J ^c,f   Johannesson, Kerstin ^d  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e University of Leeds ^*  (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Effective population size; Genetic variation; Harbor seal; Hunting records; Littorina Sea; Mesolithic; Neolithic; Phoca vitulina vitulina

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; ISOLATED POPULATION; PINNIPED; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

LITTORINA; PHOCA; PHOCA VITULINA; PHOCA VITULINA VITULINA;

EID: 25844477044     PISSN: 08240469     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-7692.2005.tb01260.x     Document Type: Article

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