KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and salps are major macroplankton contributors to Southern Ocean food webs and krill are also fished commercially. Managing this fishery sustainably, against a backdrop of rapid regional climate change, requires information on distribution and time trends. Many da...

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Published in:Earth System Science Data
Main Authors: Atkinson, A, Hill, SL, Pakhomov, EA, Siegel, V, Anadon, R, Chiba, S, Daly, KL, Downie, R, Fielding, S, Fretwell, P, Gerrish, L, Hosie, GW, Jessopp, MJ, Kawaguchi, S, Krafft, BA, Loeb, V, Nishikawa, J, Peat, H, Reiss C, C, Ross, RM, Quetin, LB, Schmidt, K, Steinberg, DK, Subramaniam, A, Tarling, GA, Ward, P
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017
Subjects:
Ecology and Environment
Fisheries
Marine Sciences
Oceanography
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
Antarc*
Antarctic Krill
Euphausia superba
Online Access:http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/7765/
http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/7765/1/Atkinson_ESSD-2017.pdf
http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/7765/2/Atkinson%20ESSD-2017-supplement.pdf
http://www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/9/193/2017/
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-193-2017
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Summary:Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and salps are major macroplankton contributors to Southern Ocean food webs and krill are also fished commercially. Managing this fishery sustainably, against a backdrop of rapid regional climate change, requires information on distribution and time trends. Many data on the abundance of both taxa have been obtained from net sampling surveys since 1926, but much of this is stored in national archives, sometimes only in notebooks. In order to make these important data accessible we have collated available abundance data (numerical density, no.m

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