Conservation biology - What killed the monk seals?

被引：27

作者：

Harwood, J ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ St Andrews, Sch Environm & Evolutionary Biol, St Andrews KY16 8LB, Fife, Scotland

来源：

NATURE | 1998年 / 393卷 / 6680期

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D O I：

10.1038/29877

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Over 100 Mediterranean monk seals, members of a population inhabiting the Cap Blanc peninusula in north-west Africa, died mysteriously in a two-month period in 1997. The mass mortality of this endangered species has been attributed to a morbillivirus. But an alternative & or additional & explanation is that the seals died because they had eaten fish contaminated by phycotoxins produced by a bloom of algae. The controversy demonstrates the practical and conceptual problems in investigating unusual cases of mortalities in wildlife.

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