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Dispersal provided resilience to range collapse in a marine mammal: insights from the past to inform conservation biology.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2010
Pinsky M L, Newsome S D, Dickerson B R, Fang Y, Van Tuinen M, Kennett D J, Ream R R, Hadly E A
Abstract excerpt
Population loss is often a harbinger of species extinction, but few opportunities exist to follow a species' demography and genetics through both time and space while this occurs. Previous research has shown that the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) was extirpated from most of its range over the past 200-800 years and that some of the extirpated populations had unique life history strategies. In this...
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