Food quality, not just quantity, matters when it comes to the health and survival of the southern resident killer whales.
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The declining salmon and whale numbers raise a critical question: Is the southern resident killer whale population solely reliant on the abundance of salmon? And, if so, since when?
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Conservation Planning Biologist, Wildlife Conservation Society Canada and Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor and York University Research Chair in Global Change Biology, York University, Canada
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Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
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Master's student, Dalhousie University
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Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
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Research Associate (Ocean Litter Project)/ Principal Investigator (Ocean Pollution Research Unit), University of British Columbia
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Postdoctoral fellow, Cooke Lab, Carleton University
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PhD Candidate, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia
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PhD candidate, Oceanography, University of British Columbia
