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 …

The Scotia Sea ecosystem is a major component of the circumpolar Southern Ocean system,
where productivity and predator demand for prey are high. The eastward-flowing Antarctic …

Stakeholders increasingly expect ecosystem assessments as part of advice on fisheries
management. Quantitative models to support fisheries decision‐making may be either …

Historical harvesting pushed many whale species to the brink of extinction. Although most
Southern Hemisphere populations are slowly recovering, the influence of future climate …

Despite much research on Euphausia superba, estimates of their total biomass and
production are still very uncertain. Recently, circumpolar krill databases, combined with …

Surveys of Euphausia superba often target localised shelves and ice edges where their
growth rates and predation losses are atypically high. Emphasis on these areas has led to …

Krill and salps are important for carbon flux in the Southern Ocean, but the extent of their
contribution and the consequences of shifts in dominance from krill to salps remain unclear …

Southern Hemisphere humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae migrate from wintering
grounds in tropical latitudes to feeding areas in the Antarctic Ocean. It has been …

A compilation of more than 30 studies shows that adult Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)
may frequent benthic habitats year‐round, in shelf as well as oceanic waters and throughout …

Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, has been studied since the early 1920s including
distribution, life cycle and behavioural biology. Quantitative aspects of distribution, biomass …