Environmental response of upper trophic-level predators reveals a system change in an Antarctic marine ecosystem

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1465, 2001, Pages 377-384

  Reid, K ^a   Croxall, J P ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic krill Euphausia superba; Predators; South Georgia; System change

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD WEB; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR; REPRODUCTION;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BREEDING; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SHRIMP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ANTARCTICA;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 0035931899     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1371     Document Type: Article

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