Potential Climate Change Effects on the Habitat of Antarctic Krill in the Weddell Quadrant of the Southern Ocean

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Hill, Simeon L ^a   Phillips, Tony ^a   Atkinson, Angus ^b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CHLOROPHYLL CONTENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; KRILL; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION (BIOMASS); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; WARMING;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEM; EUPHAUSIACEA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 84882579117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072246     Document Type: Article

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