Search Results - "Olesiuk, Peter F."

Linking killer whale survival and prey abundance: food limitation in the oceans' apex predator? by Ford, John K. B., Ellis, Graeme M., Olesiuk, Peter F., Balcomb, Kenneth C.

“…Oncorhynchus tshawytscha…”
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Development and Application of DNA Techniques for Validating and Improving Pinniped Diet Estimates by Tollit, Dominic J., Schulze, Angela D., Trites, Andrew W., Olesiuk, Peter F., Crockford, Susan J., Gelatt, Thomas S., Ream, Rolf R., Miller, Kristina M.

“…Polymerase chain reaction techniques were developed and applied to identify DNA from >40 species of prey contained in fecal (scat) soft-part matrix collected…”
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KILLER WHALES, WHALING, AND SEQUENTIAL MEGAFAUNAL COLLAPSE IN THE NORTH PACIFIC: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF MARINE MAMMALS IN ALASKA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA FOLLOWING COMMERCIAL WHALING by Trites, Andrew W, Deecke, Volker B, Gregr, Edward J, Ford, John K.B, Olesiuk, Peter F

“…The hypothesis that commercial whaling caused a sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean by forcing killer whales to eat progressively smaller…”
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Abundance and distribution of the eastern North Pacific Steller sea lion population by Pitcher, Kenneth W, Olesiuk, Peter F, Brown, Robin F, Lowry, Mark S, Jeffries, Steven J, Sease, John L, Perryman, Wayne L, Stinchcomb, Charles E, Lowry, Lloyd F

“…The eastern Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) population comprises animals that breed along the west coast of North America between California and…”
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EFFECT OF THE SOUND GENERATED BY AN ACOUSTIC HARASSMENT DEVICE ON THE RELATIVE ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF HARBOR PORPOISES (PHOCOENA PHOCOENA) IN RETREAT PASSAGE, BRITISH COLUMBIA by Olesiuk, Peter F., Nichol, Linda M., Sowden, Margaret J., Ford, John K. B.

“…We describe an experiment conducted to assess the impact of the sound generated by an acoustic harassment device (AHD) on the relative abundance and…”
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