Physiological and ecological consequences of extreme body size in whales

Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 191-201

  Williams, Terrie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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