Otters
"Otters" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Fish-eating carnivores of the family MUSTELIDAE, found on both hemispheres.
| Descriptor ID |
D010041
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.050.150.900.649.313.750.600.575.600
|
| Concept/Terms |
Giant Otters- Giant Otters
- Giant Otter
- Otter, Giant
- Otters, Giant
Sea Otters- Sea Otters
- Otter, Sea
- Otters, Sea
- Sea Otter
- Enhydra lutris
Clawless Otters- Clawless Otters
- Clawless Otter
- Otter, Clawless
- Otters, Clawless
- Aonyx
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Otters".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Otters".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Otters" by people in this website by year, and whether "Otters" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Otters" by people in Profiles.
-
Reed DC, Rassweiler A, Carr MH, Cavanaugh KC, Malone DP, Siegel DA. Wave disturbance overwhelms top-down and bottom-up control of primary production in California kelp forests. Ecology. 2011 Nov; 92(11):2108-16.