Super-Aggregations of Krill and Humpback Whales in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula

Ecological relationships of krill and whales have not been explored in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), and have only rarely been studied elsewhere in the Southern Ocean. In the austral autumn we observed an extremely high density (5.1 whales per km2) of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Nowacek, Douglas P., Friedlaender, Ari S., Halpin, Patrick N., Hazen, Elliott L., Johnston, David W., Read, Andrew J., Espinasse, Boris, Zhou, Meng, Zhu, Yiwu
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Subjects:
Research Article
Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
Austral
Southern Ocean
Wilhelmina
Wilhelmina Bay
Antarc*
Antarctic Krill
baleen whale
baleen whales
Euphausia superba
Megaptera novaeangliae
Sea ice
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3083408
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21556153
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019173

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