Uptake dynamics and effects of traditional and emerging persistent environmental pollutants to the Antarctic keystone species, Antarctic krill

• Main Author: Dawson, Amanda
• Other Authors: Nash, Susan Bengtson, Cropp, Roger, Huston, Wilhelmina, Townsend, Kathy, Kawaguchi, So
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Griffith University 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic krill; Environmental pollutants; Microplastics; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Griffith; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctica; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/373031

The schooling Euphausiid, Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is considered a keystone species in the Southern Ocean due to its abundance, prominent role in nutrient cycling, and dependency of almost all Antarctic predatory species on this single species. It has often been postulated that polar spec...