Responses of Antarctic pack-ice seals to environmental change and increasing krill fishing

• Main Authors: Forcada, Jaume, Trathan, Philip N., Boveng, Peter L., Boyd, Ian L., Burns, Jennifer M., Costa, Daniel P., Fedak, Michael, Rogers, Tracey L., Southwell, Colin J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2012
• Subjects: Antarctic pack-ice seals; Climate change; Fisheries management; Habitat change; Krill; Uncertainty; Environmental Sciences; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Crabeater Seals; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usdeptcommercepub/338; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usdeptcommercepub/article/1337/viewcontent/Forcada_BC_2012_Responses_Antarctic.pdf

The compound effects of changing habitats, ecosystem interactions, and fishing practices have implications for the management of Antarctic krill and conservation of its predators. For Antarctic pack-ice seals, an important group of krill predators, we estimate the density and krill consumption in th...