Multi-species models of Antarctic krill predators : do competitive effects influence estimates of pre-exploitation whale abundance and recovery?

• Main Author: Mkango, Sara
• Other Authors: Butterworth, Doug S, Plagányi, Éva E
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Cape Town 2008
• Subjects: Mathematics and Applied Mathematics; Antarctic; Butterworth; Indian; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; baleen whales; Crabeater Seals; Fin whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4911; https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/11427/4911/1/thesis_sci_2008_mkango_s.pdf

Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 92-111). Many species of baleen whales and seals in the Southern Hemisphere were subject to intensive overexploitation by commercial harvesting in the last two centuries, and many populations were reduced to very low levels. Krill is the...