Potential climate change effects on the habitat of antarctic krill in the weddell quadrant of the southern ocean.

Antarctic krill is a cold water species, an increasingly important fishery resource and a major prey item for many fish, birds and mammals in the Southern Ocean. The fishery and the summer foraging sites of many of these predators are concentrated between 0° and 90°W. Parts of this quadrant have exp...

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Main Authors: Simeon L Hill, Tony Phillips, Angus Atkinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3749108?pdf=render