Antarctic futures: an assessment of climate-driven changes in ecosystem structure, function, and service provisioning in the Southern Ocean

AD Rogers, BAV Frinault, DKA Barnes… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this article, we analyze the impacts of climate change on Antarctic marine ecosystems.
Observations demonstrate large-scale changes in the physical variables and circulation of …

A surplus no more? Variation in krill availability impacts reproductive rates of Antarctic baleen whales

LJ Pallin, NM Kellar, D Steel… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The krill surplus hypothesis of unlimited prey resources available for Antarctic predators due
to commercial whaling in the 20th century has remained largely untested since the 1970s …

Variability and change in the west Antarctic Peninsula marine system: research priorities and opportunities

SF Henley, OM Schofield, KR Hendry, IR Schloss… - Progress in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The west Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) region has undergone significant changes in
temperature and seasonal ice dynamics since the mid-twentieth century, with strong impacts …

Seasonal gain in body condition of foraging humpback whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

KC Bierlich, J Hewitt, RS Schick, L Pallin… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Most baleen whales are capital breeders that use stored energy acquired on foraging
grounds to finance the costs of migration and reproduction on breeding grounds. Body …

Using seabird and whale distribution models to estimate spatial consumption of krill to inform fishery management

V Warwick‐Evans, N Kelly, L Dalla Rosa… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem dynamics at the northwest Antarctic Peninsula are driven by interactions
between physical and biological processes. For example, baleen whale populations are …

The ecosystem approach to management of the Antarctic krill fishery-the 'devils are in the detail'at small spatial and temporal scales

PN Trathan, V Warwick-Evans, EF Young… - Journal of Marine …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fishery demand for Antarctic krill is increasing, and projected to continue increasing into the
future. Krill has the potential to contribute approximately 10% to all future marine landings …

High pregnancy rates in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) around the Western Antarctic Peninsula, evidence of a rapidly growing population

LJ Pallin, CS Baker, D Steel… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Antarctic humpback whales are recovering from near extirpation from commercial whaling.
To understand the dynamics of this recovery and establish a baseline to monitor impacts of a …

Humpback whale migrations to Antarctic summer foraging grounds through the southwest Pacific Ocean

V Andrews-Goff, S Bestley, NJ Gales, SM Laverick… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) populations typically undertake seasonal
migrations, spending winters in low latitude breeding grounds and summers foraging in high …

Aerial-trained deep learning networks for surveying cetaceans from satellite imagery

A Borowicz, H Le, G Humphries, G Nehls, C Höschle… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Most cetacean species are wide-ranging and highly mobile, creating significant challenges
for researchers by limiting the scope of data that can be collected and leaving large areas un …

Changing phytoplankton phenology in the marginal ice zone west of the Antarctic Peninsula

JS Turner, H Dierssen, O Schofield, HH Kim… - Marine Ecology …, 2024 - int-res.com
Climate change is altering global ocean phenology, the timing of annually occurring
biological events. We examined the changing phenology of the phytoplankton accumulation …