Improvement in survivorship: The key for population recovery?

• Main Authors: Grandi, Maria Florencia, Dans, Silvana Laura, Crespo, Enrique Alberto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Sinica
• Subjects: LIFE TABLE; NORTHERN PATAGONIA; OTARIA FLAVESCENS; POPULATION RECOVERY; SOUTH AMERICAN SEA LION; SURVIVORSHIP; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Grandi; Patagonia; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/39174

In northern Patagonia, commercial harvesting of South American sea lions, Otaria flavescens, from 1920 to 1960, decimated its population abundance. Population recovery was not immediate after hunting ceased in 1962. The population was stable until 1989, and since then has grown at an annual rate of...