Are Antarctic minke whales unusually abundant because of 20th century whaling?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 281-291

  Ruegg, Kristen C ^a   Anderson, Eric C ^b,c   Scott Baker, C ^d,e   Vant, Murdoch ^e   Jackson, Jennifer A ^d   Palumbi, Stephen R ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Antarctic marine ecosystem; Antarctic minke whale; Coalescent modelling; Competitive release; Effective population size; Krill surplus hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MINKE WHALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MINKE WHALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BALAENOPTERA BONAERENSIS; CETACEA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 73949132405     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04447.x     Document Type: Article

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