Abstract Literature on Ross Sea zooplankton is limited, although it is the most productive
system and has the highest biomass of phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean. Energy …

In recent years, substantial efforts have been made to understand the implications of climate
change on Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, because of their pivotal role in the Southern …

Background Plankton is the essential ecological category that occupies the lower levels of
aquatic trophic networks, representing a good indicator of environmental change. However …

The novel concept of the review is a focus on the organisms living in the sea ice and what
mechanisms they have developed for their existence. The review describes the physical …

Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum is the most abundant pelagic fish in the High
Antarctic shelf waters of the Southern Ocean, where it plays a pivotal role in the trophic web …

A greater understanding of biodiversity and the roles of various species involved in Southern
Ocean pelagic food webs is needed to predict and hypothesize about responses to future …

Acoustic data were collected by means of Simrad EK60 scientific echosounder on board the
research vessel “Italica” in the Ross Sea during the 2016/2017 austral summer as part of the …

Phytoplankton and zooplanktonic communities form the base of the Antarctic food web. This
study examines the evolution of the mesozooplanktonic system in Terra Nova Bay during the …

Background Distributional data on planktonic, benthic and sympagic copepods collected in
the framework of the XXXIV th Expeditions of the Italian National Antarctic Programme …