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The geographical distribution of protozoan parasite Cephaloidophora pacifica Avdeev (Order … Eugregarininda) associated with Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, was examined in samples collected … from the vicinity of the Antarctic Peninsula, near Syowa Station…
The eVect of diVerent light regimes on the … development of sexual maturity and body composition … (carbon, nitrogen, lipid and protein) of Antarctic krill, Euphausia … superba, was studied over 12 weeks under laboratory … conditions.
A new ground-based technique for estimating … the density of nesting Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) within occupied habitat is described and evaluated using an … experimental approach with model penguins. In this set-up…
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is bound by … its Article II, 3 to follow an ecosystem approach to management. This approach has been extended to … the application of a precautionary approach in the late 1980s. In our review…
The size-differentiated sex ratio (proportion of males, PM) of Antarctic krill Euphausia … superba was examined with an extensive dataset derived from scientific surveys in the Indian Ocean … sector and the southwest Atlantic sector, and from the krill fishery in the Southern Ocean.
Abstract. We examined sexual dimorphism in 11 morphological characters of the Flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus … carneipes) and used these characters in a discriminant function analysis (DFA) to enable sexual classification in the field.
Abstract We examined the incidence of extreme … diving in a 3-year overwintering study of emperor … penguins Aptenodytes forsteri in East Antarctica. We … defined extreme dives as very deep (> 400 m) and/or … very long (> 12 min).
Populations of Southern Rockhopper ( Euduptes chrysocome chrysocome … ) and Macaroni ( E. chrysolophus … ) Penguins at key breeding sites in the Southern Hemisphere have declined substantially in the past 50 years, but … their statuses at important breeding sites in southern Chile are poorly known.
Blue-dyed bait is a seabird bycatch mitigation technique which is assumed to reduce the … contrast between the bait and the ocean background making baits visually cryptic to seabirds. We tested this assumption in two ways. First, using measured spectral profiles of blue-dyed … baits (fish and squid)…
A recent review by Ainley et al. has suggested that recent investigations of the ecological structure … and processes of the Southern Ocean have “almost exclusively taken a bottom-up, forcing-by-physicalprocesses … approach relating individual species’ population trends to climate change”.