| one publication added to basket [17083] | Global warming and increasing population densities: a prescription for seal plagues
In: Marine Pollution Bulletin. Macmillan: London. ISSN 0025-326X; e-ISSN 1879-3363, more
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- Lavigne, D.M.
- Schmitz, O.J.
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| Abstract |
Application of Ockham's Razor to data from documented mass mortalities in pinniped populations suggests that unseasonably warm temperatures and high densities of seals, and not ‘invading harp seals’, marine pollution and suppressed immune systems, triggered the 1988 sealplague in the North Sea. |
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