Population ecology of the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddelli) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Since the establishment of Scott Base in 1956, seals have been killed annually to feed dog teams at Scott Base (Stonehouse and Thomson, 1967). No attempt was made to determine the effect of killing on the stock. In 1961, the Canterbury University Antarctic Biology Unit under Dr Bernard Stonehouse b...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stirling, Ian
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. Zoology 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6646