Whales sustain fisheries: Blue whales stimulate primary production in the Southern Ocean

By T. Lavery, B. Roudnew, J. Seymour, James G. Mitchell, V. Smetacek, S. Nicol. 2014

86 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/c3c791f7f5840872c11719b19e417dd18c278a4a

How researchers see this paper

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In Atmospheric Science

1. Daniel P. Costa
2. C. Smith
3. J. Estes

In Ecology

1. Daniel P. Costa
2. C. Smith
3. J. Estes
4. Lyne Morissette
5. V. Smetacek
6. J. Roman

In Global and Planetary Change

1. S. Nicol
2. Daniel P. Costa
3. C. Smith
4. J. Estes
5. Lyne Morissette
6. V. Smetacek
7. J. Roman

Citations in the corpus

• Whales as marine ecosystem engineers (2014, background): “Rather than reducing fishery yields, the presence of some species, such as blue whales in the Southern Ocean, promotes productivity through the defecation of nutrient-rich feces (Lavery et al. 2014).”