Great whales as prey: Using demography and bioenergetics to infer interactions in marine mammal communities

Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 231-244

  Doak, Daniel F ^a   Williams, Terrie M ^a   Estes, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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