Age, growth and maximum size of Antarctic notothenioid fish — revisited

• Main Authors: Kock, Karl-Hermann, Everson, Inigo
• Other Authors: di Prisco, G., Pisano, E., Clarke, A.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer-Verlag 1998
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/504123/; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2157-0_2

The temperature of the Southern Ocean has undergone an overall reduction from about 20 °C to −1.8 °C over the last 55–60 million years. To date, the Southern Ocean is characterized by low temperatures ranging from +3 °C close to the South Polar Frontal Zone to −1.86 °C in the vicinity of the Antarctic continent and a strong seasonality and patchiness of primary productivity.