Abstract
Antarctic krill is a major prey species for a diverse array of Southern Ocean predators. The amount of krill that predators consume, and how this changes over space and time, is a key issue in understanding both regional and circumpolar aspects of the Southern Ocean food-web. We assess current knowledge of consumption by the various predator groups, and the ecological processes through which krill and its predators influence each other. Knowledge has improved greatly over recent decades and has revealed a high level of complexity in the processes that govern krill consumption. We focus on the Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Sea region where both krill and its consumers occur in significant concentrations and where an updated estimate of krill consumption by the main vertebrate groups is 55 million tonnes per year. Research has mainly focused on mammalian and avian predators of post-larval krill, particularly penguins. Potentially important consumer groups like fish, cephalopods and carnivorous zooplankton remain poorly understood, as does consumption of the early life stages of krill. As a consequence of these knowledge gaps and the variability that arises from complexity, a reliable seasonally, spatially or taxonomically resolved description of krill consumption remains elusive. One of the key motivations for attempting to estimate krill consumption is to understand how changes in krill availability impact predator populations. Such understanding is an important requirement for ecosystem based management of the Antarctic krill fishery. We therefore propose that integrated study areas in strategic fishing locations should be developed to directly assess the response of krill predators to changes in krill availability.
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Trathan, P.N., Hill, S.L. (2016). The Importance of Krill Predation in the Southern Ocean. In: Siegel, V. (eds) Biology and Ecology of Antarctic Krill. Advances in Polar Ecology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29279-3_9
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