Krill (Euphausia superba) distribution contracts southward during rapid regional warming
Krill (<i>Euphausia superba</i>) distribution contracts southward during rapid regional warming, Published online: 21 January 2019; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0370-z
As the southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean has warmed, the distribution of a key species, Antarctic krill, has contracted southwards. This has occurred in tandem with a decline in recruitment of juveniles, linked to increasingly positive anomalies of the Southern Annular Mode.
