Super-aggregations of krill and humpback whales in Wilhelmina bay, Antarctic Peninsula

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Nowacek, Douglas P ^a   Friedlaender, Ari S ^a   Halpin, Patrick N ^a   Hazen, Elliott L ^a,b   Johnston, David W ^a   Read, Andrew J ^a   Espinasse, Boris ^c   Zhou, Meng ^d   Zhu, Yiwu ^d  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; FORAGING; HUMPBACK WHALE; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SHRIMP; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; EUPHAUSIACEA;

CETACEA; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; MYSTICETI;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; EUPHAUSIACEA; HUMPBACK WHALE;

EID: 79955685544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019173     Document Type: Article

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