Seasonal variation in body composition, metabolic activity, feeding, and growth of adult krill Euphausia superba in the Lazarev Sea

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: Meyer, Bettina, Auerswald, Lutz, Siegel, Volker, Spahić, Susanne, Pape, Carsten, Fach, Bettina A., Teschke, Mathias, Lopata, Andreas L., Fuentes, Veronica
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Inter-Research 2010
• Subjects: Antarctic; Lazarev; Lazarev Sea; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/15070/1/15070_Meyer_et_al_2010.pdf

We investigated physiological parameters (elemental and biochemical composition, metabolic rates, feeding activity and growth) of adult Antarctic krill in the Lazarev Sea in late spring (December), mid autumn (April) and mid winter (July and August) to evaluate proposed hypotheses of overwintering m...