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Schooling behaviour of Antarctic krill was induced repeatedly over a period of one year in the Australian … Antarctic Division research aquarium. The details of the laboratory setup suitable for krill to school are … described.
We examine global phylogeography of the two forms of giant petrel Macronectes spp. Although previously … considered to be a single taxon, and despite debate over the status of some populations and the … existence of minimal genetic data (one mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence per form)…
Reliable estimates of diets are vital to monitor impacts of sea lion populations … on their ecosystems and their interactions with fisheries, and to … understand the role of food to animal nutrition and health. Approaches … include using (1) prey remnants in stomach contents, spews and scats; … (2)…
Abstract: Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are found throughout much of their life in schools. In the laboratory however…
The abundance of small faecal pellets is high in marine waters. Little is known, however, about the processes governing their production and fate in the water column. We investigated faecal pellet production and flux in relation to the phytoplankton and copepod assemblages present in Ellis Fjord…
The sediment record of the fauna of Ace Lake, a saline meromictic lake in the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica, consists of copepod … eggs, spermatophores and exoskeletal fragments, rotifer and tintinnid loricae, and foraminiferal and folliculinid tests. The … relative abundance of these remains…
Abstract Constructing realistic energy budgets for … Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, is hampered by the … lack of data on the metabolic costs associated with … swimming. In this study respiration rates and pleopod … beating rates were measured at six current speeds.