Potential influences of whaling on the status and trends of pinniped populations

Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 344-359

  Costa, Daniel P ^a   Weise, M Ichael J ^a   Arnould, John P Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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