Antarctic ecosystem monitoring: Quantifying the response of ecosystem indicators to variability in Antarctic krill

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 366-373

  Reid, Keith ^a   Croxall, John P ^a   Briggs, Dirk R ^a   Murphy, Eugene J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Ecosystem monitoring; Predator; Scale

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; MONITORING; PREY AVAILABILITY;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; SOUTH GEORGIA; WORLD;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 17044385804     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icesjms.2004.11.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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