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Massive circumpolar biomass of Southern Ocean zooplankton: Implications for food web structure, carbon export, and marine spatial planning

Publication 1 November, 2022

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An overview of Southern Ocean zooplankton data: abundance, biomass, feeding and functional relationships

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Acoustic discrimination of Southern Ocean zooplankton

Publication 1 January, 1998

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Antarctic tipping points

Publication 1 June, 2023

…this to the deep ocean. Without this carbon pump, atmospheric CO2 would already be around 200ppm higher than it is at present. The crucial Southern Ocean carbon pump depends on…

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Zooplankton-mediated carbon flux in the Southern Ocean: influence of community structure, metabolism and behaviour

Publication 12 February, 2019

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Phyto- and zooplankton community structure and production around South Georgia (Southern Ocean) during Summer 2001/02

Publication 1 January, 2005

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Community structure and grazing impact of mesozooplankton during late spring/early summer 2004/2005 in the vicinity of the Crozet Islands (Southern Ocean)

Publication 1 January, 2007

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Biogeochemistry of a Southern Ocean plankton ecosystem: Using natural variability in community composition to study the role of metazooplankton in carbon and nitrogen cycles

Publication 1 April, 2003

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Status, change, and futures of zooplankton in the Southern Ocean

Publication 17 June, 2022

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Mesozooplankton community composition controls faecal pellet flux and remineralisation depth in the Southern Ocean

Publication 1 April, 2019

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Pteropods in Southern Ocean ecosystems

Publication 1 January, 2008

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The contribution of zooplankton faecal pellets to deep carbon transport in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean)

Publication 25 March, 2015

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Zooplankton and micronekton respond to climate fluctuations in the Amundsen Sea polynya, Antarctica

Publication 1 July, 2019

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Plankton and nekton community structure in the vicinity of the South Sandwich Islands (Southern Ocean) and the influence of environmental factors

Publication 12 April, 2022

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Proximate and elemental composition of gelatinous zooplankton from the Southern Ocean

Publication 1 February, 1992

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Seasonal variation in the predatory impact of myctophids on zooplankton in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean)

Publication 1 November, 2018

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Spatial distributions of Southern Ocean mesozooplankton communities have been resilient to long-term surface warming

Publication 1 January, 2018

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Attenuation of particulate organic carbon flux in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, is controlled by zooplankton fecal pellets

Publication 16 February, 2015

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Mesozooplankton in the Southern Ocean: spatial and temporal patterns from Discovery Investigations

Publication 1 January, 2014

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Zooplankton gut passage mobilizes lithogenic iron for ocean productivity

Publication 1 October, 2016

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Predatory zooplankton on the move: Themisto amphipods in high-latitude marine pelagic food webs

Publication 24 April, 2019

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Biological indicators reveal mesozooplankton foray behaviour in dynamic physical environments: Reply to Kaartvedt et al. (2024) [Reply comment]

Publication 18 April, 2024

Read more on Biological indicators reveal mesozooplankton foray behaviour in dynamic physical environments: Reply to Kaartvedt et al. (2024) [Reply comment]

Plankton community structure south and west of South Georgia (Southern Ocean): links with production and physical forcing

Publication 1 January, 2007

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A database of zooplankton abundance in the Atlantic sectors of the Southern and sub-Arctic Oceans

Publication 14 October, 2022

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Mesozooplankton community structure across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to the north of South Georgia: Southern Ocean

Publication 1 January, 2003

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Detection of foray behaviour in the zooplankton of the Antarctic Polar Front region

Publication 27 July, 2023

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Predatory impact of the myctophid fish community on zooplankton in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean)

Publication 1 December, 2015

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The summer zooplankton community at South Georgia: biomass, vertical migration and grazing

Publication 1 January, 1995

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Ammonium regeneration by Antarctic mesozooplankton: an allometric approach

Publication 1 January, 2001

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An assessment of the use of ocean gliders to undertake acoustic measurements of zooplankton: the distribution and density of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in the Weddell Sea

Publication 1 June, 2014

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Copepod faecal pellet transfer through the meso- and bathypelagic layers in the Southern Ocean in spring

Publication 24 March, 2017

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The summertime plankton community at South Georgia (Southern Ocean): comparing the historical (1926/27) and modern (post 1995) records.

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Comparing Bongo net and N70 mesozooplankton catches: using a reconstruction of an original net to quantify historical plankton catch data

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Rapid warming of the ocean around South Georgia, Southern Ocean, during the 20th century: Forcings, characteristics and implications for lower trophic levels

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Comparison of the emergent behavior of a complex ecosystem model in two ocean general circulation models

Publication 1 January, 2010

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Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front to the northeast of South Georgia: horizontal advection of krill and its role in the ecosystem

Publication 1 January, 2004

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The role of diatom resting spores in pelagic–benthic coupling in the Southern Ocean

Publication 18 May, 2018

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Developing integrated models of Southern Ocean food webs: including ecological complexity, accounting for uncertainty and the importance of scale

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Changing biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean and its ecosystem implications

Publication 31 July, 2020

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Advection in polar and sub-polar environments: Impacts on high latitude marine ecosystems

Publication 14 October, 2016

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Variability in transport pathways on and around the South Georgia shelf, Southern Ocean: Implications for recruitment and retention

Publication 15 January, 2014

Read more on Variability in transport pathways on and around the South Georgia shelf, Southern Ocean: Implications for recruitment and retention

Mercury biomagnification in a Southern Ocean food web

Publication 15 April, 2021

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Seasonal cycles of biogeochemical fluxes in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean: A stable isotope approach

Publication 25 August, 2023

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Diel vertical migration of the Southern Ocean euphausiid, Euphausia triacantha, and its metabolic response to consequent short-term temperature changes

Publication 18 February, 2021

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The CCAMLR 2000 Survey: a multinational, multi-ship biological oceanography survey of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean.(Editorial)

Publication 1 January, 2004

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Acoustic targets at South Georgia and the South Orkney Islands during a season of krill scarcity

Publication 1 July, 1996

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Re-examining the Antarctic Paradox: speculation on the southern Ocean as a nutrient-limited system

Publication 1 January, 1998

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Mechanisms of dissolved and labile particulate iron supply to shelf waters and phytoplankton blooms off South Georgia, Southern Ocean

Publication 22 August, 2018

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Southern Ocean mesopelagic fish communities in the Scotia Sea are sustained by mass immigration

Publication 1 April, 2017

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Food web structure and bioregions in the Scotia Sea: A seasonal synthesis

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Estimates of Southern Ocean primary production—constraints from predator carbon demand and nutrient drawdown

Publication 1 January, 1998

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Iron budgets for three distinct biogeochemical sites around the Kerguelen archipelago (Southern Ocean) during the natural fertilisation experiment KEOPS-2

Publication 29 July, 2015

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Some environmental factors influencing phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean around South Georgia

Publication 1 January, 1986

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Identification of Southern Ocean acoustic targets using aggregation backscatter and shape characteristics

Publication 1 January, 2003

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Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: How changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota

Publication 1 September, 2014

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Species distribution models describe spatial variability in mesopelagic fish abundance in the Southern Ocean

Publication 7 February, 2023

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Scientific diving under sea ice in the Southern Ocean

Publication 1 January, 1995

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Vertical flux of microplastic, a case study in the Southern Ocean, South Georgia

Publication 1 August, 2023

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Field comparison of an LHPR net sampling system and an Optical Plankton Counter (OPC) in the Southern Ocean

Publication 1 January, 2000

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Importance of coastal nutrient supply for global ocean biogeochemistry

Publication 1 January, 2008

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Seasonal trophic structure of the Scotia Sea pelagic ecosystem considered through biomass spectra and stable isotope analysis

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Population dynamics and biogeochemical significance of Limacina helicina antarctica in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean)

Publication 1 January, 2012

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SeaWiFs in the southern ocean: spatial and temporal variability in phytoplankton biomass around South Georgia

Publication 1 January, 2004

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DISCOVERY 2010: Spatial and temporal variability in a dynamic polar ecosystem

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Trophic relationships among Southern Ocean copepods and krill: some uses and limitations of a stable isotope approach

Publication 1 January, 2003

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Trophodynamics of Protomyctophum (Myctophidae) in the Scotia Sea (Southern Ocean)

Publication 1 October, 2015

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Krill, climate, and contrasting future scenarios for Arctic and Antarctic fisheries

Publication 1 September, 2014

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Carbon flux in ice–ocean–plankton systems of the Bellingshausen Sea during a period of ice retreat

Publication 1 January, 1998

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Feeding habits of bluenose warehou, Hyperoglyphe antarctica (Carmichael, 1819) (Centrolophidae) at seamounts of the Southern Atlantic.

Publication 1 February, 2020

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Substantial open-ocean phytoplankton blooms to the north of South Georgia, South Atlantic, during summer

Publication 1 September, 1996

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nrDNA:mtDNA copy number ratios as a comparative metric for evolutionary and conservation genetics

Publication 1 August, 2018

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Organic or junk food? Microplastic contamination in Antarctic krill and salps

Publication 29 March, 2023

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Relative production of Calanoides acutus (Copepoda: Calanoida) and Euphausia superba (Antarctic krill) at South Georgia, and its implications at wider scales

Publication 1 January, 2005

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Antarctic aquatic ecosystems as habitats for phytoplankton

Publication 1 January, 1986

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Response of the copepod community to a spring bloom in the Bellingshausen Sea

Publication 1 January, 1995

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Maud Rise – a snapshot through the water column

Publication 1 January, 2011

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Dissolution dominating calcification process in polar pteropods close to the point of aragonite undersaturation

Publication 6 October, 2014

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A diatom extension to the cGEnIE Earth system model – EcoGEnIE 1.1

Publication 27 February, 2024

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Interpretation of acoustic data at two frequencies to discriminate between Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana) and other scatterers

Publication 1 January, 1993

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Antarctic Marine Primary Production, Biogeochemical Carbon Cycles and Climatic Change [and Discussion]

Publication 1 November, 1992

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An assessment of the utility of an acoustic Doppler current profiler for biomass estimation

Publication 1 January, 1998

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Krill faecal pellets drive hidden pulses of particulate organic carbon in the marginal ice zone

Publication 21 February, 2019

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Contrasting migratory responses of two closely related seabirds to long-term climate change

Publication 1 November, 2016

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Foraging black-browed albatrosses target waters overlaying moraine banks – a consequence of upward benthic-pelagic coupling?

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Changing circumpolar distributions and isoscapes of Antarctic krill: Indo‐Pacific habitat refuges counter long‐term degradation of the Atlantic sector

Publication 18 January, 2021

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Copepod growth and development around South Georgia: relationships with temperature, food and krill

Publication 1 January, 2002

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Evidence of resource partitioning between fin and sei whales during the twentieth-century whaling period

Publication 6 November, 2022

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Ecological segregation of two superabundant, morphologically similar, sister seabird taxa breeding in sympatry

Publication 3 March, 2020

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Hydrostatic Pressure and Temperature Effects on the Membranes of a Seasonally Migrating Marine Copepod

Publication 1 October, 2014

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Krill-copepod interactions at South Georgia, Antarctica, II. Euphausia superba as a major control on copepod abundance

Publication 1 January, 1999

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A foodweb model to explore uncertainties in the South Georgia shelf pelagic ecosystem

Publication 1 January, 2012

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Ecological segregation of two superabundant, morphologically similar, sister seabird taxa breeding in sympatry

Publication 3 March, 2020

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