Southern Ocean cephalopods: life cycles and populations (Proceedings of the symposium held at Kings College Cambridge, 5–9 July 1993)

The first systematic sampling in the Southern Ocean to capture cephalopods took place 120 years ago aboard HMS Challenger . Over the next century taxonomic knowledge was advanced by expeditions including the Mission du Cap Horn (France), the Valdivia Deep Sea Expedition (Germany), the Discovery expe...

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Published in:Antarctic Science
Main Authors: Rodhouse, P.G, Piatkowski, U., Lu, C.C.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1994
Subjects:
Geology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Oceanography
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
Antarc*
Antarctic Science
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102094000192
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102094000192
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Summary:The first systematic sampling in the Southern Ocean to capture cephalopods took place 120 years ago aboard HMS Challenger . Over the next century taxonomic knowledge was advanced by expeditions including the Mission du Cap Horn (France), the Valdivia Deep Sea Expedition (Germany), the Discovery expeditions (UK) the Eltanin (USA) and Academic Knipovitch (USSR). Over the last decade Southern Ocean cephalopod research has at last progressed beyond the descriptive phase and is rapidly joining other fields of Antarctic marine biology in its concerns with population biology and trophic systems, Although much taxonomic work remains to be done, ecological studies on the role of cephalopods in the diet of predators has been facilitated by advances in the identification of cephalopod beaks, development of opening-closing nets has allowed fine-scale distribution studies, and as methods for the study of growth, diet and biochemical genetics have advanced, so these have been applied to Southern Ocean cephalopods.

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