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NFSNetwork File System
NFSNational Forest Service (US)
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NFSNiagara Falls (Amtrak station code; Niagra Falls, Ontario, Canada)
NFSNot For Sale
NFSNot For Sale (band)
NFSNotice of Foreclosure Sale (real estate)
NFSNetwork Facilities Services
NFSNASA FAR Supplement
NFSNationwide Financial Services, Inc.
NFSNorthern Fur Seal
NFSNational Financial Services LLC
NFSNational Farm Survey (Ireland)
NFSNumber Field Sieve
NFSNetwork File Services
NFSNetworked File System
NFSNorfolk Southern (railroad)
NFSNational Fire Service (UK)
NFSNuclear Fuel Services, Inc. (Erwin, TN)
NFSNorthern Free State (South Africa)
NFSNight Fighter Squadron
NFSNative Fish Society (Oregon, USA)
NFSNot for Sure
NFSNurse Faculty Scholars (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
NFSNational Fraud Squad (Israel)
NFSNuclear Facility Safety
NFSNot Fully Specified
NFSNaval Fire Support
NFSNational Floor Show (trading event; UK)
NFSNotched Fracture Strength
NFSNutrition and Food Security (World Health Organization)
NFSNational Fertility Survey
NFSnon-frost susceptible
NFSNutrition and Food Systems (college course)
NFSNATO Force Structure
NFSNotifier Fire Systems
NFSNormal for Swindon (UK)
NFSNet Feet Squared
NFSNetwork Frame Synchronization
NFSNet Foreign Selling (finance)
NFSNon-Flying Status/Not on Flying Status
NFSNashua Federal Savings and Loan
NFSNeed for Speed: High States (game)
NFSNuclear Fuel System
NFSNear-Field Scanner
NFSNavigational Filmstrip
NFSNitrogen Fixation Stimulation
NFSNew Frontiers in Organic Syntheses
NFSNon-Fermented Sugar (brewing technology)
NFSNetwork Forecasting System (Sprint)
NFSNuclear Fuels Service
NFSNormalized Flow Sum (network traffic)
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References in periodicals archive
Similar sharp declines have also occurred among some populations of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina), northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus), and sea otters (Enhydra lutris) (York, 1987; Pitcher, 1990; Trites, 1992; Estes et al., 1998).
Ecotypic variation and predatory behavior among killer whales (Orcinus orca) off the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska
In the 1930's, during late fall and winter, there were 2,000-3,000 Steller sea lions present (Barabash-Nikiforov, 1935; Ognev, 1935), but Barabash-Nikiforov (1935) noted that with the onset of the breeding season almost all sea lions left the islands; only sea lions that were on the haulouts with northern fur seals remained.
Distribution and abundance of Steller sea lions, Eumetopias jubatus, on the Asian Coast, 1720's-2005
Therefore, identifications of four squid species known to occur in northern fur seal diet were categorized into two groups following Sinclair et al.
Application of two methods for determining diet of northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus)
In the case of the northern fur seal, excellent data are presented on attendance-foraging cycles at several colonies in which the marine environments are very different.
Behavior and Ecology of the Northern Fur Seal
The northern fur seal resource of the Pribilof Islands provides one of the earliest examples of successful management of an aquatic resource, especially in international management.
Fisheries management: an historical overview
Trites and Bigg (1992) reported larger body sizes in northern fur seal populations during a period of decline.
Neonatal growth of Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) pups in Alaska
Northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) and elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) were the most common pinnipeds observed.
Distribution and abundance of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) and other marine mammals off the northern Washington coast
Paul Island for scientists to study northern fur seals. So that's where some field biologists go in summer to observe a breeding colony of the marine mammals, often evading territorial bulls with sharp teeth on the way to the ladder.
The Art Of Bullying
Ontogeny of swimming and diving in northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) pups.
Diving behavior of immature Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus)
At point Bennett on the West end of San Miguel one of the largest haul outs of Pinnipeds in the world can be found, with tens of thousands of Elephant Seals, California Sea Lions, Northern Fur Seals, and local harbor Seals, covering miles of beaches at various times of the year.
America's galapagos islands
At the recently extensively refurbished Dubai Dolphinarium in Creek Park, visitors get up close and personal to bottlenose dolphins and playful northern fur seals at the action-packed shows.
Dubai Dolphinarium starts new show
Of all the extractive harvesting documented in the far north, including walrus tusk and beavers (of note, northern fur seals did not migrate beyond the Bering Strait and so there is only glancing coverage of them), the most riveting and seemingly consequential--which is saying a lot because the fur trade wreaked extensive havoc on existing pathways in whatever guise it took--was indeed commercial whaling.
Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade
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