Signals from the south; humpback whales carry messages of Antarctic sea‐ice ecosystem variability

• Published in: Global Change Biology
• Main Authors: Nash, Susan M. Bengtson, Castrillon, Juliana, Eisenmann, Pascale, Fry, Brian, Shuker, Jon D., Cropp, Roger A., Dawson, Amanda, Bignert, Anders, Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla, Waugh, Courtney, Polkinghorne, Bradley J., Luche, Greta Dalle, McLagan, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; The Sentinel; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2600197; https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14035

Southern hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) rely on summer prey abundance of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) to fuel one of the longest‐known mammalian migrations on the planet. It is hypothesized that this species, already adapted to endure metabolic extremes, will be one of th...