Temperature-dependent growth of Antarctic krill: Predictions for a changing climate from a cohort model

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 358, Issue , 2008, Pages 191-202

  Wiedenmann, John ^a,b   Cresswell, Kate ^b   Mangel, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic krill; Biomass per recruit; Scotia Sea; Temperature dependent growth

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRUSTACEAN; GROWTH; PREDICTION; SHRIMP FISHERY; TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; SCOTIA SEA; SOUTH GEORGIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 44249087176     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07350     Document Type: Article

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