Climate-associated regime shifts drive decadal-scale variability in recovery of North Atlantic right Whale population

Oceanography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 148-153

  Meyer Gutbrod, Erin L ^a   Greene, Charles H ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

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EID: 84905269277     PISSN: 10428275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2014.64     Document Type: Article

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