Impacts of sea otter (Enhydra lutris) predation on commercially important sea cucumbers (Parastichopus californicus) in southeast Alaska

Sea cucumbers (Parastichopus californicus), which are an important commercial, subsistence, and ecological resource, are negatively affected by an expanding sea otter (Enhydra lutris) population in southeast Alaska. A few hundred sea otters were reintroduced into southeast Alaska in the late 1960s a...

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Published in:Canadian journal of fisheries and aquatic sciences 2013-10, Vol.70 (10), p.1498-1507
Main Authors: LARSON, Sean D, HOYT, Zachary N, ECKERT, Ginny L, GILL, Verena A
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Animal populations
Animal, plant and microbial ecology
Applied ecology
Biological and medical sciences
Echinodermata
Enhydra lutris
Exploitation and management of natural biological resources (hunting, fishing and exploited populations survey, etc.)
Foraging behavior
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Holothurioidea
Invertebrates
Mammalia
Marine
Marine mammals
Parastichopus californicus
Population density
Predation
Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution
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