The species in the study were all members of the notothenioid lineage, which includes Chilean sea bass. Most Antarctic fish belong to this cold-water-adapted group. The importance of the archipelego ...
The bountiful creatures sequester carbon and are a vital food source for marine predators, but their future is uncertain ...
Today a new threat is emerging: industrial fishing for Antarctic krill ... feeding on krill near the South Orkney Islands, just north of Antarctica. This was probably the largest aggregation ...
The world's largest iceberg has run aground in shallow waters off the remote British island of South Georgia, home to millions of penguins and seals. The iceberg, which is about twice the size of ...
studied various aspects of the ecosystem of the sub-Antarctic island shelves, such as the fish and benthic invertebrate community, zooplankton, bacterioplankton, and phytoplankton, they detailed.