Super-aggregations of krill and humpback whales in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Douglas P Nowacek, Ari S Friedlaender, Patrick N Halpin, Elliott L Hazen, David W Johnston, Andrew J Read, Boris Espinasse, Meng Zhou, Yiwu Zhu
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Wilhelmina; Wilhelmina Bay; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; baleen whale; baleen whales; Euphausia superba; Megaptera novaeangliae; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019173; https://doaj.org/article/4377f73e50fb4630b4c9bde2accc6e49

Ecological relationships of krill and whales have not been explored in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), and have only rarely been studied elsewhere in the Southern Ocean. In the austral autumn we observed an extremely high density (5.1 whales per km(2)) of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangli...