Behaviour affects local-scale distributions of Antarctic krill around South Georgia

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 343, Issue , 2007, Pages 193-206

  Cresswell, Katherine A ^a,c   Tarling, Geraint A ^a   Burrows, Michael T ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Advection; Behaviour; DVM; Euphausia superba; Mortality; SDP; Stochastic dynamic programming; Swarming

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CRUSTACEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; MODELING; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SWARMING; SWIMMING BEHAVIOR; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTH GEORGIA;

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

EID: 34548381166     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps06908     Document Type: Article

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