| assessment of competition between fisheries and steller sea lions in alaska based on estimated prey biomass, fisheries removals and predator foraging behaviour. | a leading hypothesis to explain the dramatic decline of steller sea lions (eumetopias jubatus) in western alaska during the latter part of the 20th century is a change in prey availability due to commercial fisheries. we tested this hypothesis by exploring the relationships between sea lion population trends, fishery catches, and the prey biomass accessible to sea lions around 33 rookeries between 2000 and 2008. we focused on three commercially important species that have dominated the sea lion ... | 2015 | 25950178 |
| bald eagles and sea otters in the aleutian archipelago: indirect effects of trophic cascades. | because sea otters (enhydra lutris) exert a wide array of direct and indirect effects on coastal marine ecosystems throughout their geographic range, we investigated the potential influence of sea otters on the ecology of bald eagles (haliaeetus leucocephalus) in the aleutian islands, alaska, usa. we studied the diets, productivity, and density of breeding bald eagles on four islands during 1993-1994 and 2000-2002, when sea otters were abundant and scarce, respectively. bald eagles depend on nea ... | 2008 | 18959310 |