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Habitat Ecology of Enteroctopus dofleini from Middens and Live Prey Surveys in Prince William Sound, Alaska

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Book cover Cephalopods Present and Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives

The population ecology of mobile predators is often regulated by a complex mix of factors. Understanding the mechanisms that regulate the abundance and distribution of organisms remains a central goal of marine ecology (Estes and Peterson, 1998). Recent studies have emphasized the success of using multiple mechanisms to understand control of population dynamics, particularly in marine species (National Science Foundation, 1998; Connolly and Roughgarden, 1998; Karlson, 2002).

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Scheel, D., Lauster, A., Vincent, T.L.S. (2007). Habitat Ecology of Enteroctopus dofleini from Middens and Live Prey Surveys in Prince William Sound, Alaska. In: Landman, N.H., Davis, R.A., Mapes, R.H. (eds) Cephalopods Present and Past: New Insights and Fresh Perspectives. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6806-5_20

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