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SUBMITTER: Newsome SD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1887562 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Newsome Seth D SD Etnier Michael A MA Gifford-Gonzalez Diane D Phillips Donald L DL van Tuinen Marcel M Hadly Elizabeth A EA Costa Daniel P DP Kennett Douglas J DJ Guilderson Tom P TP Koch Paul L PL
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070525 23
Historical data provide a baseline against which to judge the significance of recent ecological shifts and guide conservation strategies, especially for species decimated by pre-20th century harvesting. Northern fur seals (NFS; Callorhinus ursinus) are a common pinniped species in archaeological sites from southern California to the Aleutian Islands, yet today they breed almost exclusively on offshore islands at high latitudes. Harvest profiles from archaeological sites contain many unweaned pup ...[more]