Sea otters are good indicators of ocean health. In addition, they are a keystone species, offering a stabilizing effect on ecosystem, controlling sea urchin populations that would otherwise inflict damage to kelp forest ecosystems. The kelp forest ecosystem is crucial for marine…
"More than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world's largest oceanscape prior to the California gold rush. In addition to the more conventional aspects of the sea otter trade, including Russian expansion in Alaska, British and American trading in …
Until translocation efforts in the 1960s, sea otters (Enhydra lutris) were absent from Southeast Alaska due to extirpation by the fur trade in the 18th and 19th centuries. About 400 sea otters were reintroduced to six Southeast Alaska locations, including two sites near Prince o…
Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) were hunted to the verge of extinction by fur traders in the 18th–19th centuries and provide a remarkable example of survival after an extreme population bottleneck. In this dissertation, I generated and analyzed sea otter genomic data to detect signa…
An introduction to sea otters, aquatic mammals that live in the north Pacific and rarely come to land.
"An introduction to sea otters, aquatic mammals that live in the north Pacific and rarely come to land." -- T.p. verso.