Linking killer whale survival and prey abundance: Food limitation in the oceans' apex predator?

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 139-142

  Ford, John K B ^a   Ellis, Graeme M ^a   Olesiuk, Peter F ^a   Balcomb, Kenneth C ^b  

^a PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

^b CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Killer whale; Orcinus orca; Predation

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FOOD LIMITATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREY AVAILABILITY; SALMONID; SURVIVAL; WHALE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; ORCINUS ORCA; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 77449111253     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0468     Document Type: Article

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