Effects Of Sea Otter Colonization On Soft-Sediment Intertidal Prey Assemblages In Glacier Bay, Alaska

• Main Author: Weitzman, Benjamin Phillip
• Other Authors: Tinker, Martin T, Estes, James A
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2013
• Subjects: Ecology; Biology; Bivalves; Enhydra lutris; Infauna; Recolonization; Soft-Sediment; Top predator; Giganteus; Glacier Bay; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5gb6p1wn

The influence of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) on nearshore marine communities has been widely studied in kelp-forest ecosystems, however less is known about their impacts in other systems. In Southeast Alaska, the recolonization by sea otters into areas where they have been long absent (~100 years),...