Linking killer whale survival and prey abundance: food limitation in the oceans' apex predator?

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2010-02-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0468PMID 19755531PMCID PMC2817236
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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