Shift in bald eagle diet linked to sea otter decline

Thursday, October 9, 2008 - 06:28 in Biology & Nature

A newly published study has found that the decline of sea otters along Alaska's Aleutian Islands has forced a change in the diet of a terrestrial predator - the bald eagle. The study demonstrates the extraordinary complexity of marine ecosystems and how far-ranging the impacts can be when there is a population shift in a keystone species like the sea otter...

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