Assessing the trophic ecology of top predators across a recolonisation frontier using DNA metabarcoding of diets

Top predator populations, once intensively hunted, are rebounding in size and geographic distribution. The cessation of sealing along coastal Australia and subsequent recovery of Australian Arctocephalus pusillus doriferus and long-nosed A. forsteri fur seals represents a unique opportunity to inves...

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Main Authors: Hardy, N., Berry, T., Kelaher, B., Goldsworthy, S., Bunce, Michael, Coleman, M., Gillanders, B., Connell, S., Blewitt, M., Figueira, W.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Inter-Research 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54741