MARINE MAMMAL HARVESTS AND OTHER INTERACTIONS WITH HUMANS
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Marine mammal harvests and other interactions with humans.
The Arctic is currently undergoing rapid social and environmental changes, and while the peoples of the north have a long history of adapting, the current changes in climate pose unprecedented challenges to the marine mammal-human interactions in the Arctic regions. Arctic marine mammals have been and remain an important resource for many of the indigenous and nonindigenous people of the north....
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecological Applications
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1051-0761
DOI: 10.1890/06-0843.1