Could whales have maintained a high abundance of krill?

Evolutionary Ecology Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 651-662

  Willis, Jay ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Computer model; IBM; Regime change

Indexed keywords

CETACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 34347223918     PISSN: 15220613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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