The expanding population of fur seals coming onshore Antarctica's Signy Island : ecological impacts and implications for environmental management.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries commercial seal hunting in maritime Antarctica resulted in a huge decline in the populations of Antarctic fur seals. In some areas to near extinction. (1) However, since the end of sealing in the Southern Ocean the population has made a huge recovery. At Signy Is...
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ftunivcanter:oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/13964 2023-05-15T13:49:08+02:00 The expanding population of fur seals coming onshore Antarctica's Signy Island : ecological impacts and implications for environmental management. Carter, Holly 2006 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13964 English en eng University of Canterbury http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13964 All Rights Reserved Theses / Dissertations 2006 ftunivcanter 2022-09-08T13:40:01Z In the 19th and early 20th centuries commercial seal hunting in maritime Antarctica resulted in a huge decline in the populations of Antarctic fur seals. In some areas to near extinction. (1) However, since the end of sealing in the Southern Ocean the population has made a huge recovery. At Signy Island in the South Orkney Island’s paleolimnological studies suggest that the population of fur seals coming onshore during the summer months has increased beyond any in the past 6500 years. (1) The increased activity is having a major impact on the unique terrestrial ecology of Signy Island and if some sort of strategy for managing the seal population is not established permanent ecological damage may be done. (3) Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Fur Seals Antarctica Signy Island Southern Ocean University of Canterbury, Christchurch: UC Research Repository Antarctic Southern Ocean Signy Island ENVELOPE(-45.595,-45.595,-60.708,-60.708) |
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries commercial seal hunting in maritime Antarctica resulted in a huge decline in the populations of Antarctic fur seals. In some areas to near extinction. (1) However, since the end of sealing in the Southern Ocean the population has made a huge recovery. At Signy Island in the South Orkney Island’s paleolimnological studies suggest that the population of fur seals coming onshore during the summer months has increased beyond any in the past 6500 years. (1) The increased activity is having a major impact on the unique terrestrial ecology of Signy Island and if some sort of strategy for managing the seal population is not established permanent ecological damage may be done. (3) |
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The expanding population of fur seals coming onshore Antarctica's Signy Island : ecological impacts and implications for environmental management. |
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The expanding population of fur seals coming onshore Antarctica's Signy Island : ecological impacts and implications for environmental management. |
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The expanding population of fur seals coming onshore Antarctica's Signy Island : ecological impacts and implications for environmental management. |
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The expanding population of fur seals coming onshore Antarctica's Signy Island : ecological impacts and implications for environmental management. |
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The expanding population of fur seals coming onshore Antarctica's Signy Island : ecological impacts and implications for environmental management. |
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expanding population of fur seals coming onshore antarctica's signy island : ecological impacts and implications for environmental management. |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Fur Seals Antarctica Signy Island Southern Ocean |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Fur Seals Antarctica Signy Island Southern Ocean |
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