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

• 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: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks at UMass Boston 2011
• Subjects: Antarctic krill; humpback whales; Wilhelmina Bay; baleen whale; climate change; Environmental Health and Protection; Marine Biology; Oceanography; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Wilhelmina; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; baleen whales; Euphausia superba; Megaptera novaeangliae; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umb.edu/envsty_faculty_pubs/2; https://scholarworks.umb.edu/context/envsty_faculty_pubs/article/1001/viewcontent/journal.pone.0019173.pdf

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...