Herpesviruses including novel gammaherpesviruses are widespread among phocid seal species in Canada [PDF]
, 2016 Little is known about herpesviruses in Canadian pinnipeds. We measured prevalence of antibodies to herpesviruses in the sera from Canadian phocid seals by an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
Bellehumeur, Christian +6 more
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Background of Harp in Sasanian period and its comparison with other civilizations in Ancient Near East [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخی, 2019 Among the existing chordophones it is harp (in Persian, Chang) that had a special position in ancient civilizations. No investigation has yet been conducted on the history of harp and its development in different periods; however, in this regard ...
Keyvan Hajian +2 more
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Individual variation in pup vocalizations and absence of behavioral signs of maternal vocal recognition in Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) [PDF]
, 2012 Individually stereotyped vocalizations often play an important role in relocation of offspring in gregarious breeders. In phocids, mothers often alternate between foraging at sea and attending their pup.
Boebel, Olaf +4 more
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Transitions of social-ecological subsistence systems in the Arctic [PDF]
, 2017 Transitions of social-ecological systems (SES) expose governance systems to new challenges. This is particularly so in the Arctic where resource systems are increasingly subjected to global warming, industrial development and globalization which ...
Clark, Douglas A. +3 more
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Brucellosis in Ringed Seals and Harp Seals from Canada [PDF]
Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2000 A novel Brucella sp. was isolated from lymph nodes of four ringed seals (Phoca hispida) collected near Pangnirtung (Baffin Island, Canada) in January and February 1995 and in one harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) collected near the Magdalen Islands (Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada) in March 1996.
Lorry B. Forbes +3 more
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A review of the battle for food in the Barents Sea: Cod vs. marine mammals
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 Cod, harp seal and minke whale are the main top predators in the Barents Sea ecosystem. In the last decade, the abundance of cod has increased considerably, and is at a record high level.
Bjarte eBogstad +4 more
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Harp Seals: Monitors of Change in Differing Ecosystems
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 Harp seals are the most abundant marine mammal in the north Atlantic. As an ice obligatory predator, they reflect changes in their environment, particularly during a period of climatic change.
Garry B. Stenson +2 more
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Summing the strokes: energy economy in northern elephant seals during large-scale foraging migrations. [PDF]
, 2015 BackgroundThe energy requirements of free-ranging marine mammals are challenging to measure due to cryptic and far-ranging feeding habits, but are important to quantify given the potential impacts of high-level predators on ecosystems.
Adachi, T +8 more
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Deep Divergence-Based Approach to Clustering [PDF]
, 2019 A promising direction in deep learning research consists in learning representations and simultaneously discovering cluster structure in unlabeled data by optimizing a discriminative loss function.
Bianchi, Filippo M. +5 more
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NAMMCO Scientific Publications, 2000 Diet data were collected in the Greenland Sea pack ice (the West Ice) from March to June from harp seals (Phoca groenlandica) in 1987, 1990-1992 and 1997, and from hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) in 1992 and 1994, during Soviet Russian commercial ...
Vladimir Potelev +3 more
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