Krill population dynamics at South Georgia: Implications for ecosystem-based fisheries management

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 399, Issue , 2010, Pages 243-252

  Reid, Keith ^a,b   Watkins, Jon L ^a   Murphy, Eugene J ^a   Trathan, Phil N ^a   Fielding, Sophie ^a   Enderlein, Peter ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic krill; Euphausia superba; Match mismatch; Population dynamics; Recruitment; South Georgia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRUSTACEAN CULTURE; DIET; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; PREDATOR; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ANTARCTICA; SOUTH GEORGIA;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 76249085454     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08356     Document Type: Article

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