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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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Autores principales: Nowacek, Douglas P., Friedlaender, Ari S., Halpin, Patrick N., Hazen, Elliott L., Johnston, David W., Read, Andrew J., Espinasse, Boris, Zhou, Meng, Zhu, Yiwu
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3083408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21556153
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0019173