Whales, whaling and ecosystem change in the Antarctic and Eastern Bering Sea: insights from ecosystem models

• Main Authors: Andrew W. Trites, Andrea P. Coombs, Emma L. Bredesen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2004
• Subjects: Antarctic; Bering Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Myers; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Orca; Orcinus orca; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.666.8656; http://www.marinemammal.org/wp-content/pdfs/TritesCIESM2004.pdf

The question of whether species assemblages are controlled by food availability or by predators is a fundamental ecological question that has implications for biological conservation, mainte-nance of biodiversity, development of marine protected areas, and management of economically and culturally i...