Implications of Increasing Pinniped Populations on the Diet and Abundance of White Sharks off the Coast of Massachusetts

Global Perspectives on the Biology and Life History of the White Shark

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 405-418

  Skomal, Gregory B ^a   Chisholm, John ^a   Correia, Steven J ^a  

^a Shark Research Project   (United States)

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EID: 84914139780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b11532-32     Document Type: Chapter

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