Super-aggregations of krill and humpback whales in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula.

Ecological relationships of krill and whales have not been explored in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), and have only rarely been studied elsewhere in the Southern Ocean. In the austral autumn we observed an extremely high density (5.1 whales per km(2)) of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangli...

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Main Authors: Douglas P Nowacek, Ari S Friedlaender, Patrick N Halpin, Elliott L Hazen, David W Johnston, Andrew J Read, Boris Espinasse, Meng Zhou, Yiwu Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-04-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21556153/pdf/?tool=EBI