Past and Present Distribution of Walruses in Svalbard
ABSTRACT. Walruses were once very abundant in the Svalbard archipelago. However three and a half centuries of commercial exploitation had caused the walrus to be on the verge of extinction in this region when it finally was totally protected in 1952. Since the mid-1980s walruses have again been comm...
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1992
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.546.5403 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic47-1-34.pdf |