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  • Weaning mass affects changes in body composition and food intake in harbour seal pups during the first month of independence 

    Muelbert, MMC, WD Bowen, and SJ Iverson. 2003. "Weaning mass affects changes in body composition and food intake in harbour seal pups during the first month of independence." Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76(3): 418-427. Copyright © 2003 The University of Chicago Press.
    In phocid seals, the transition to nutritional independence is abrupt, with females abandoning their offspring after weaning and returning to sea. We hypothesized that body size at weaning may play an important role in ...

  • Why do fish stocks collapse? The example of cod in Atlantic Canada 

    Myers, RA, JA Hutchings, and NJ Barrowman. 1997. "Why do fish stocks collapse? The example of cod in Atlantic Canada." Ecological Applications 7(1): 91-106.
    In 1993, six Canadian populations of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) had collapsed to the point where a moratorium was declared on fishing. It has been argued that the collapses were caused by poor recruitment of cod to the ...