Optimal foraging theory as a model to examine the relationship between relative prey accessibility and foraging energetics in Stellar sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea /

The western stock of the Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) (SSL) along the Aleutian Islands and in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) has continuously declined over the past three decades, and is now listed as endangered. While the causes of this decline are not well understood, nutritional stress, resul...

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Main Author:	Cornick, Leslie Anne
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2001.
Subjects:	Major wildlife and fisheries sciences.
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