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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University of Canterbury
2006
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/13964 |