There is no universal method that can be applied to extract bound extracellular polymeric
substances (EPS) from benthic diatoms of intertidal sediments without causing cell lysis. Six …

Quantitative methods are needed to evaluate the ecological effects of fishing forage species
upon which predators depend. African penguin Spheniscus demersus numbers at the …

Survival rates of endangered western stock Steller sea lions Eumetopias jubatus east of
Samalga Pass (~ 170 W) have rebounded to nearly the same levels estimated for the 1970s …

The use of spatial epidemiology and geographical information systems (GIS) facilitates the
incorporation of spatial relationships into epidemiological investigations of marine mammal …

From 2010 to 2015, satellite transmitters were deployed on 16 adult female Steller sea lions
(AFSSLs; Eumetopias jubatus) in three regions of Alaska because there is limited …

Publisher Summary It is currently virtually impossible to wholly substantiate claims that
predation by marine mammals is adversely impacting a fishery or vice versa. Despite a …

Declines in large vertebrate populations are widespread but difficult to detect from
monitoring data and hard to understand due to a multiplicity of plausible biological …

The relationship between fisheries and climate has been given renewed emphasis owing to
increasing concern regarding anthropogenically induced climate change. This relationship …

Over the past three decades, the decline and altered spatial distribution of the western stock
of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska have been attributed to changes in the …

A bio-economic analysis was conducted for two fisheries using a multi-species size-based
meta-population model built using the BIOMAS modelling system. The model was built to …