Improvement in Survivorship: The Key for Population Recovery?

• Main Authors: Grandi, María Florencia, Dans, Silvana L., Crespo, Enrique A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica 2016
• Subjects: Research Article; Grandi; Patagonia; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511824/; https://doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2016.55-9

María Florencia Grandi, Silvana L. Dans, and Enrique A. Crespo (2016) 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...