South Georgia, antarctica: a productive, cold water, pelagic ecosystem

By A. Atkinson, M. Whitehouse, J. Priddle, G. Cripps, P. Ward, M. Brandon. 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. A. Atkinson
2. V. Siegel
3. P. Trathan
4. P. Ward
5. J. Watkins
6. E. Murphy
7. Huw Griffiths
8. Geraint A. Tarling

In Oceanography

1. Huw Griffiths
2. K. Linse
3. A. Atkinson
4. A. Clarke
5. D. Barnes
6. P. Trathan
7. V. Siegel
8. P. Ward

Citations in the corpus

• Distribution, Biomass and Demography of Antarctic Krill, Euphausia superba (2016, methodology): “Rather than attempting to calculate net production (as described above), which reflects both growth and mortality operating together, Atkinson et al. (2009) have separated the two processes by calculating gross production.”
• Natural growth rates in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba): II. Predictive models based on food, temperature, body length, sex, and maturity stage (2006, background): “It is generally assumed that growth is maximal at South Georgia due to the warm water and plentiful food in summer (e.g., Atkinson et al. 2001; Reid et al. 2002).”
• Biodiversity and biogeography of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic mollusca (2006, background): “The waters around South Georgia, one of the diversity hotspots in our data, are known for their high pelagic productivity (Atkinson et al., 2001), and this might drive increased richness of the underlying benthic fauna.”
• Oceanic circumpolar habitats of Antarctic krill (2008, background): “These hotspots are also foci for krill fishery (Ichii 2000, Kawaguchi & Nicol 2007), for most research efforts, and for locally intense energy fluxes within the food web (Atkinson et al. 2001, Murphy et al. 2007).”
• An overview of Southern Ocean zooplankton data: abundance, biomass, feeding and functional relationships (2012, background): “This has led to rapid advances in the understanding of specific systems (e.g. reviews by Hosie, 1994; Schnack-Schiel and Mujica, 1994; Ducklow et al., 2007; Atkinson et al., 2001; Murphy et al., 2007; Pakhomov and Froneman, 1999a).”
• Foraging strategies of grey-headed albatrosses Thalassarche chrysostoma: integration of movements, activity and feeding events (2004, background): “It should also be noted that the APF (Antarctic Polar Front) north of South Georgia is a vast area extending for hundreds of kilometres, roughly east–west (Atkinson et al. 2001).”
• Feeding and overwintering of Antarctic krill across its major habitats: The role of sea ice cover, water depth, and phytoplankton abundance (2014, methodology): “Natural iron fertilization of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean by continental shelf sources of the Antarctic Peninsula.”
• Feeding ecology of myctophid fishes in the northern Scotia Sea (2009, background): “The northern Scotia Sea area is one of the most productive regions in the Southern Ocean (Atkinson et al. 2001) and, although generally krill-dominated, has a substantial, depth-stratified myctophid fauna that includes 15 species in 5 genera (Collins et al. 2008a).”
• Patterns in the distribution of myctophid fish in the northern Scotia Sea ecosystem (2008, background): “The seas surrounding South Georgia represent one of the most productive regions of the Southern Ocean (Atkinson et al. 2001), supporting large populations of land-based predators and commercial fisheries (Agnew 2004).”
• Food web dynamics in the Scotia Sea in summer: A stable isotope study (2012, background): “These hotspots of primary production support large numbers of birds and seals during the breeding season and the most valuable fishery for both groundfish and Antarctic krill in the Southern Ocean (Miller and Agnew, 2000; Atkinson et al., 2001; Collins et al., 2010).”
• Interannual variability in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) density at South Georgia, Southern Ocean: 1997–2013 (2014, background): “The pelagic ecosystem at South Georgia is extremely productive and intense phytoplankton blooms support a rich foodweb (Atkinson et al., 2001) that includes zooplankton, large densities of krill, and vertebrate predators (such as penguins, seals, and whales).”