Overview
- Offers a comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of the current knowledge about Antarctic krill, the key species of the entire Antarctic ecosystem
- Provides a definitive reference work on Antarctic krill for now and the future
- Researchers and managers will have fast and reliable access to all essential and relevant information for future research plans and issues underlying sustainable harvesting of krill
Part of the book series: Advances in Polar Ecology (AVPE)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book gives a unique insight into the current knowledge of krill population dynamics including distribution, biomass, production, recruitment, growth and mortality rates. Detailed analysis is provided on food and feeding, reproduction and krill behaviour. The volume provides an overview on the aspects of natural challenges to the species, which involve predation, parasites and the commercial exploitation of the resource and its management.
A chapter on genetics shows the results of population subdivision and summarizes recent work on sequencing transcriptomes for studying gene function as part of the physiology of live krill.
The focus of Chapter 4 is on physiological functions such as biochemical composition, metabolic activity and growth change with ontogeny and season; and will demonstrate which environmental factors are the main drivers for variability. Further discussed in this chapter are the bottle necks which occur in the annual life cycle of krill, and the mechanisms krill have adapted to cope with severe environmental condition.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biology and Ecology of Antarctic Krill
Editors: Volker Siegel
Series Title: Advances in Polar Ecology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29279-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-29277-9Published: 16 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80529-0Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-29279-3Published: 03 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2468-5712
Series E-ISSN: 2468-5720
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 441
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment, general, Animal Ecology, Animal Physiology, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management