In situ grazing rates and daily ration of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba feeding on phytoplankton at the Antarctic Polar Front and the Marginal Ice Zone

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 160, Issue , 1997, Pages 77-91

  Perissinotto, R ^a   Pakhomov, E A ^b   McQuaid, C D ^b   Froneman, P W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antarctic krill; Daily ration; Euphausia superba; Grazing rates; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

CARBON RATION; GRAZING; KRILL; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC SECTOR; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 0031573975     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps160077     Document Type: Article

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