The Whale Pump: Marine Mammals Enhance Primary Productivity in a Coastal Basin

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Joe Roman ,

* E-mail: jroman@uvm.edu

Affiliation Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America
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James J. McCarthy

Affiliation Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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