Status of translocated sea otters at San Nicolas Island, California
Southwestern Naturalist
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Abstract
In the 1970s about 1,650 southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) were restricted to the central California coast (Riedman and Estes, 1990), and a high volume of oil was being shipped through the region. Because of the vulnerability of sea otters to contamination from oil (Costa and Kooyman, 1982; Williams and Davis, 1995) that would likely spread wide- ly along the shore after a large spill (Van- Blaricom and Jameson, 1982), the subspecies was listed as threatened in 1977 under the United States Endangered Species Act.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Status of translocated sea otters at San Nicolas Island, California |
| Series title | Southwestern Naturalist |
| DOI | 10.2307/3672835 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 2000 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Southwestern Association of Naturalists |
| Contributing office(s) | Western Ecological Research Center |
| Description | 7 p. |
| First page | 322 |
| Last page | 328 |