The believers? What? The Monkees fan club?
Carl Clifford
> On 23 Jan 2015, at 9:10 am, Ian May <> wrote:
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> Hello Laurie
>
> Not wanting to upset "the believers", I cannot help but wonder if these
> researchers ever considered that a decline of Antarctic Krill could be caused
> by the exponential increase of Cetaceans that has occurred over the past two
> decades. Is it true that a current population estimate of just one species,
> the humpback whale has now reached 80,000 individuals? About five years
> ago, the population estimate at that time had increased to 35,000 animals?
> See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cetaceans#Global_Population_Estimates
> or http://whaleone.com.au/whale-facts/
>
> As a part time researcher from a time nearing the end of the commercial
> whaling era when it was rare to sight a large whale in Australian waters, I
> occasionally pondered the effects on the pelagic world from competition on
> the basic marine food source impacted by the presence or absence of
> Cetaceans.
> My conclusion was that you cannot have your krill and eat it too.
>
> regards
>
>
> Ian May
> PO Box 110
> St Helens, 7216
>
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> Laurie Knight wrote:
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>> The following study contrasts the fortunes of Chinstrap and Gentoo Penguins
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>> see http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150120121304.htm
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>> Original study: MJ Polito, WZ Trivelpiece, WP Patterson, NJ Karnovsky, CS
>> Reiss, SD Emslie. Contrasting specialist and generalist patterns facilitate
>> foraging niche partitioning in sympatric populations of Pygoscelis penguins.
>> Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2015; 519: 221 DOI: 10.3354/meps11095
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