Recruitment of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba in the South Georgia region: Adult fecundity and the fate of larvae

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 331, Issue , 2007, Pages 161-179

  Tarling, G A ^a   Cuzin Roudy, J ^b   Thorpe, S E ^a   Shreeve, R S ^a   Ward, P ^a   Murphy, E J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

Advection; Ascent descent cycle; Fecundity; OCCAM; Ocean circulation and climate advanced model; Polar regions; Predation; Reproduction; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; CRUSTACEAN; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; IMMIGRATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PREDATION; RECRUITMENT;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTH GEORGIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 33947109411     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps331161     Document Type: Article

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