Salps are barrel-shaped, gelatinous zooplankton that regularly form large swarms. They
have historically been ignored because they are difficult to sample and their gelatinous body …

Polar regions have experienced significant warming in recent decades. Warming has been
most pronounced across the Arctic Ocean Basin and along the Antarctic Peninsula, with …

For years scientists viewed the deep sea as calm, quiet, and undisturbed, with marine
species existing in an ecologically stable and uniform environment. Recent discoveries have …

In the Southern Ocean, several zooplankton taxonomic groups, euphausiids, copepods,
salps and pteropods, are notable because of their biomass and abundance and their roles …

Understanding the energy flux through food webs is important for estimating the capacity of
marine ecosystems to support stocks of living resources. The energy density of species …

There is an enormous amount of data on Southern Ocean (SO) zooplankton, mostly on their
distribution with a minority addressing rate processes. This review aims to summarise these …

The calving of A‐68, the 5,800‐km2, 1‐trillion‐ton iceberg shed from the Larsen C Ice Shelf
in July 2017, is one of over 10 significant ice‐shelf loss events in the past few decades …

The biological pump describes the transport of particulate matter from the sea surface to the
ocean's interior including the seabed. The contribution by gelatinous zooplankton bodies as …

The salp Salpa thompsoni has exhibited increased abundance in high latitude portions of
the Southern Ocean in recent decades and is now frequently the numerically dominant …

An international effort is underway to establish a representative system of marine protected
areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean to help provide for the long-term conservation of …