Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: how changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota

AJ Constable, J Melbourne‐Thomas… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Antarctic and Southern Ocean (ASO) marine ecosystems have been changing for at
least the last 30 years, including in response to increasing ocean temperatures and changes …

Status of the world's baleen whales

PO Thomas, RR Reeves… - Marine Mammal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
No global synthesis of the status of baleen whales has been published since the 2008 IUCN
Red List assessments. Many populations remain at low numbers from historical commercial …

State of the climate in 2015

J Blunden, DS Arndt - Bulletin of the American Meteorological …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 Page 1 Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society Vol. 97, No. 8, August 2016 STATE OF THE CLIMATE IN 2015 Brought …

Long-term decline in krill stock and increase in salps within the Southern Ocean

A Atkinson, V Siegel, E Pakhomov, P Rothery - Nature, 2004 - nature.com
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and salps (mainly Salpa thompsoni) are major grazers in
the Southern Ocean,,,, and krill support commercial fisheries. Their density distributions …

Winter and spring controls on the summer food web of the coastal West Antarctic Peninsula

GK Saba, WR Fraser, VS Saba, RA Iannuzzi… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Understanding the mechanisms by which climate variability affects multiple trophic levels in
food webs is essential for determining ecosystem responses to climate change. Here we use …

Recent changes in phytoplankton communities associated with rapid regional climate change along the western Antarctic Peninsula

M Montes-Hugo, SC Doney, HW Ducklow, W Fraser… - Science, 2009 - science.org
The climate of the western shelf of the Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) is undergoing a transition
from a cold-dry polar-type climate to a warm-humid sub-Antarctic–type climate. Using three …

Marine ecosystem assessment for the Southern Ocean: birds and marine mammals in a changing climate

S Bestley, Y Ropert-Coudert… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The massive number of seabirds (penguins and procellariiformes) and marine mammals
(cetaceans and pinnipeds)–referred to here as top predators–is one of the most iconic …

Antarctic marine biodiversity: adaptations, environments and responses to change

LS Peck - Oceanography and Marine Biology, 2018 - library.oapen.org
Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares
many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading …

Marine pelagic ecosystems: the west Antarctic Peninsula

HW Ducklow, K Baker… - … of the Royal …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The marine ecosystem of the West Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) extends from the
Bellingshausen Sea to the northern tip of the peninsula and from the mostly glaciated coast …

Impact of climate change on Antarctic krill

H Flores, A Atkinson, S Kawaguchi, BA Krafft… - Marine Ecology …, 2012 - int-res.com
Antarctic krill Euphausia superba (hereafter 'krill') occur in regions undergoing rapid
environmental change, particularly loss of winter sea ice. During recent years, harvesting of …