Ecological importance of the Southern Boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6677, 1998, Pages 708-710

  Tynan, Cynthia T ^a  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC KRILL; BALEEN WHALE; BIRD; FOOD WEB; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEAN CURRENT; SEAL;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; SHRIMP; WHALE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN, ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT;

BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; CEPHALOPODA; EUPHALSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; PHYSETER MACROPHALUS;

EID: 0032537196     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33675     Document Type: Article

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