How Many Seals Were There? The Global Shelf Loss during the Last Glacial Maximum and Its Effect on the Size and Distribution of Grey Seal Populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Boehme, Lars ^a   Thompson, Dave ^a   Fedak, Mike ^a   Bowen, Don ^b   Hammill, Mike O ^c   Stenson, Garry B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^d NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; FORAGING; GLACIAL PERIOD; GREY SEAL; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; NORTH SEA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; SEA LEVEL; SEAL; TELEMETRY; TEMPERATURE; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ICE COVER; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEALS, EARLESS;

CYSTOPHORA (MAMMALIA); HALICHOERUS GRYPUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84871563085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053000     Document Type: Article

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