Demographic Reconstruction of Antarctic Fur Seals Supports the Krill Surplus Hypothesis

Demographic Reconstruction of Antarctic Fur Seals Supports the Krill Surplus Hypothesis

Much debate surrounds the importance of top-down and bottom-up effects in the Southern Ocean, where the harvesting of over two million whales in the mid twentieth century is thought to have produced a massive surplus of Antarctic krill. This excess of krill may have allowed populations of other pred...

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Main Authors: Joseph I. Hoffman, Rebecca S. Chen, David L. J. Vendrami, Anna J. Paijmans, Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra, Jaume Forcada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-03-01
Series:Genes
Subjects:
<i>Arctocephalus gazella</i>
Antarctic fur seal
RAD sequencing
demographic modelling
bottleneck
krill surplus hypothesis
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/13/3/541

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