Austral fall-winter transition of mesozooplankton assemblages and krill aggregations in an embayment west of the Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: ESPINASSE, Boris, ZHOU, Meng, Zhu, Yiwu, Hazen, Elliott L., Friedlaender, Ari S., Nowacek, Douglas P., Chu, Dezhang, CARLOTTI, Francois
• Other Authors: Institut méditerranéen d'océanologie (MIO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst), University of Massachusetts System (UMASS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic Peninsula; Chlorophyll; Zooplankton; Krill; Food web; Austral fall; [SDV.EE.ECO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment/Ecosystems; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Austral; Inner Bay; Wilhelmina; Wilhelmina Bay; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00745295; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00745295/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00745295/file/m452p063.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09626

To assess krill aggregations and humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae foraging behavior, spatial and temporal relationships between Antarctic krill Euphausia superba and zooplankton taxonomic groups were studied during an interdisciplinary cruise conducted in May and June 2009 within Wilhelmina Bay...