Sentences with phrase «on krill abundance»
BEST time to see blue whales in Monterey Bay: May through October, with peaks generally in July and August depending on krill abundance.
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Using statistical models, a team of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and Plymouth Marine Laboratory assessed the likely impact of projected temperature increases on the Weddell Sea, Scotia Sea and Southern Drake Passage, which is known for its abundance of krill.
On 1 May 2009 we entered Wilhelmina Bay, located along the WAP (Figure 1), to survey the distribution and abundance of krill and humpback whales.
The keystone of the South Georgia ecosystem, the secret to the miraculous abundance of wildlife on this stark, cold, windswept island — the foundation, indeed, for almost all vertebrate life in the Antarctic — is krill.
They need abundant amounts of fish and plankton and krill and so on so it is necessary for them to not only find this abundance but to «farm» it.
To put it in the cautious words of a researcher: «[Humpback] whales feed almost exclusively on krill in the Antarctic and it's unknown what effect an expanding krill fishery in conjunction with climate warming might be having on the abundance of krill.»