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Sea otters (Enhydra lutris) were heavily depleted by commercial harvests during the 1700s, and probably numbered only a few thousand animals in 13 remnant colonies when they became protected by the International Fur Seal Treaty in 1911 [62].

Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009

Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) and sea otters (Enhydra lutris) were almost driven to extinction throughout the Arctic [103], while the great auk (Pinguinus impennis) and Steller sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) did become extinct.

General description of the Arctic biota 2009

An unsuccessful attempt was made to reintroduce sea otter Enhydra lutris in 1968.

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, United States 2008

The sea otter Enhydra lutris can be considered a keystone predator because its voracious feeding on herbivorous sea urchins allows kelps to flourish along the rocky coast, along with an entire ecosystem associated with these large marine plants.

Keystone species 2008

Well-known examples include the cascading effects of decreases in sea otter (Enhydra lutris) populations that led to coastal erosion in the North Pacific, and the loss of large expanses of Hawaiian native vegetation to the lantana shrub (Lantana camara), whose expansion over the landscape is promoted by the myna bird (Acridotheres tristis) originally introduced to control a pest of sugarcane.

Biodiversity and ecosystem services 2006

(_Enhydris lutris_), now nearly extinct, was at one time found in numbers along the north-west American coast, from the Aleutian Islands and Alaska to Oregon.

Pioneers in Canada Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

Kamchatka-beaver (_Enhydris lutris_, Lin.) is a species neither of the otter nor the beaver, but belongs to a peculiar genus, allied to

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) and sea otters (Enhydra lutris) were almost driven to extinction throughout the Arctic

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Characteristic wildlife includes raccoon (Procyon lotor), sea otter (Enhydra lutris), mink (Mustela vison), coyote (Canis latrans), black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus), and harbour seal (Phoca vitulina).

Puget lowland forests 2009

Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris): Southcentral Alaska Stock.

Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009