Adult antarctic krill feeding at abyssal depths

• Published in: Current Biology
• Main Authors: Clarke, Andrew, Tyler, Paul A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/63920/

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is a large euphausiid, widely distributed within the Southern Ocean [1], and a key species in the Antarctic food web [2]. The Discovery Investigations in the early 20th century, coupled with subsequent work with both nets and echosounders, indicated that the bulk...