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Sealed up tight : the endurance of low priority collections : a case study of the Laing Seal Collection at Otago Museum : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Museum Studies at Massey University, Manawatū, New Zealand [PDF]
This thesis is a case study examining a collection of Victorian era glass seal matrix casts, titled the Laing Seal Collection. Held by Otago Museum (OM), these glass casts make up what this research terms a “low-priority collection”: a collection that ...
Andrewartha, Isobel Claire
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Development of a one-step duplex RT-qPCR for the quantification of phocine distemper virus [PDF]
Author Posting. © Wildlife Disease Association, 2015. This article is posted here by permission of Wildlife Disease Association for personal use, not for redistribution.
Bogomolni, Andrea L. +5 more
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Accurate data on population abundance is needed to monitor trends through time, especially for species that are commercially harvested or vulnerable to climate change related impacts. Hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) in the Northwest Atlantic whelp on
Charmain Hamilton +4 more
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ABSTRACT Aquatic ecosystems have been in an alarming state of decline for decades. In particular, estuarine ecosystems have experienced long‐term declines in fish diversity due to factors such as habitat degradation, pollution and altered hydrology. Monitoring these systems is often limited by the difficulty and cost of conventional survey methods.
Jake M. Jackman +7 more
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Spartan Daily, March 21, 1979 [PDF]
Volume 72, Issue 34https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/6462/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Polar bears (Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774) rely on seals as their primary prey, yet predator–prey spatial relationships are poorly understood. We examined the spatial relationship between Davis Strait polar bears and harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus ...
Larissa Thelin +4 more
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First record of the harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) extralimital presence in the Mediterranean Sea [PDF]
The stranding of a harp seal on the beach in the municipality of Motril (southern Spain) represents the first record of this species in the Mediterranean Sea and the southernmost known report.
Bellido, Juan Jesús +8 more
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ABSTRACT Climate change associated transformations of Arctic marine ecosystems are having detrimental impacts on Arctic endemic marine mammals. However, warming conditions are providing new habitats for temperate marine mammals, some of which are expanding into Arctic regions, posing a threat of novel pathogen introduction and disease transmission.
Luca A. Schick +11 more
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Who eats whom in the Barents Sea?
An overview of the estimates of consumption by predators on the main fish stocks in the Barents Sea is given. The main predators are cod (Gadus morhua), harp seal (Phoca groenlandica) and minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata).
Bjarte Bogstad +2 more
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Rescue, rehabilitation, and release of marine mammals: An analysis of current views and practices. [PDF]
Stranded marine mammals have long attracted public attention. Those that wash up dead are, for all their value to science, seldom seen by the public as more than curiosities.
Geraci, Joseph R. +2 more
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