Sentences with phrase «krill under sea ice»

Now, a year and a half later, data from the auspicious encounter show that minke whales have staked out a unique ecological niche that no other baleen whale can take advantage of: hunting krill under sea ice.

Not exact matches

The tag data showed that the minkes did most of their feeding under the sea ice, often skimming just below the frozen water while rapidly snapping up krill swarms — a feeding style seen in no other whale, Friedlaender and his colleagues report online today in The Journal of Experimental Biology.

The satellites can not peer into or under sea ice, which goes from paper thin in some places to several meters thick, says Katrin Schmidt, a krill ecologist at the University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom who led the study, published this week in Biogeosciences.

In the autumn adult krill migrate from offshore and continental shelf areas to inshore habitats where they remain through winter under the protective cover of sea ice [4].

Few studies have described the distribution and behaviour of krill in the coastal waters of the Antarctic Peninsula in autumn [3], [4], when adult krill are believed to migrate inshore to overwinter under the shelter of sea ice [5], [6].