Kerguelen plateau
Trophodynamics of Southern Ocean pteropods on the southern Kerguelen Plateau
... The niche variation hypothesis (Van Valen, 1965) proposed that broader, population‐level dietary niches are associated with greater individual‐level resource use, in relation to populations possessing nar‐ rower niches. ...
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Sustained upwelling of subsurface iron supplies seasonally persistent phytoplankton blooms around the Southern Kerguelen Plateau, Southern Ocean
... the Kerguelen plateau in the Indian sector of the Southern ...southern plateau last much longer (~3 months) than the northern bloom (~1-month downstream of northern ...southern plateau were ...
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Trace metals distributions in the Southern Ocean : Kerguelen Plateau process study
... To study the sustained effect of Fe fertilisation, some regions naturally fertilized by Fe have been identified and studied (FeNXs). In the Southern Ocean, 5 regions have been studied in detail: the polar front in the ...
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Differentiating lithogenic supplies, water mass transport, and biological processes on and off the Kerguelen Plateau using rare earth element concentrations and neodymium isotopic compositions
... the Kerguelen Plateau bloom are mainly related to interactions between these elements and marine particulate phases (carbonated and/or oxidized surface coatings, diatoms and barite), as discussed in the ...
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Seasonal meandering of the polar front upstream of the Kerguelen Plateau
... the Kerguelen Plateau, a major bottom topography ...the Kerguelen Plateau. Between the Conrad Rise and the Kerguelen Plateau, the PF is essentially zonally orientated in ...
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Comparison of independently derived benthic invertebrate and demersal fish ecoregionalisations for the Kerguelen Plateau
... The Kerguelen Plateau is a highly productive region of the southern Indian Ocean that supports lucra- tive demersal fisheries (Duhamel and Welsford, ...northern Kerguelen Plateau; one for ...
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Heard Island and the McDonald Islands: a window into the Kerguelen Plateau
... the Kerguelen Islands, are exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, possibly the largest submarine plateau on earth, and provide geochemical and isotopic insights inro the formation of oceanic ...
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Diapycnal mixing and the internal wave field north of the Kerguelen Plateau
... EM-APEX and VMP dissipation rate profiles are within an order of mag- nitude and have a similar vertical structure indicating that the finescale pa- rameterization applied to the EM-APEX data is appropriate (Figure ...
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Ecosystem controls on carbon export efficiency from the naturally iron fertilised phytoplankton bloom over the Kerguelen Plateau
... the Kerguelen Islands as part of the KEOPS2 ...central plateau (A3 site) and north of the PF in deep water downstream of the islands (F-L ...the Kerguelen bloom but at variable ...central ...
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Ocean circulation and frontal structure near the southern Kerguelen Plateau during the Kerguelen Axis marine ecosystem survey
... greater Kerguelen Plateau ...southern Kerguelen Plateau ...– Kerguelen Plateau; PET – Princess Elizabeth Trough; WBC – Western Boundary ...
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A mass balanced ecosystem model for the Kerguelen Plateau
... the Kerguelen Plateau supports valuable French and Australian fisheries that target Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) and mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus ...The Kerguelen ...
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Mesoscale variability of conditions favoring an iron induced diatom bloom downstream of the Kerguelen Plateau
... the Kerguelen Islands (Indian Sector of the Southern ...the Kerguelen Plateau, resulting in a plume of chlorophyll that extends 1,000 km ...the plateau indicates that other physical and ...
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Fisheries interaction data suggest variations in the distribution of sperm whales on the Kerguelen Plateau
... between Kerguelen and HIMI may be due to variations in the way vessels operate when ...and Kerguelen (Hucke- Gaete et ...Kerguelen Plateau. However, for any given season, vessels operating in ...
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The ecological role of Salpa thompsoni in the Kerguelen Plateau region of the Southern Ocean : a first comprehensive evaluation
... evaluating the ecological and management implications of such changes. However a lack of in-situ data on the elemental and nutritional content of S. thompsoni often means there is not sufficient information to include S. ...
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Kerguelen Plateau Bathymetric Grid, November 2010
... A new bathymetry grid, called kerg_dem, was created for the Kerguelen Plateau area with a geographic coverage ranging from latitude 48° to 56° South, longitude 68° to 80° East. The new DEM has a grid pixel ...
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Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Southern Ocean and East Antarctica : geological and paleontological evidence from the Kerguelen Plateau, Vestfold Hills and Prince Charles Mountains
... Palaeoenvironmental Interpretation of the Pliocene S0rsdal Formation, Marine Plain, Vestfold Hill, East Antarctica 7 .1 Introduction 7 .1.1 Aims 7.1.2 Study Area 7.1.3 Previous Work - Th[r] ...
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The pelagic squid assemblage of the Kerguelen Axis
... Abstract: Squids are increasingly acknowledged as an ecologically important group in Southern Ocean ecosystems, and most are represented exclusively by endemic species due to the biological barrier of Antarctic Polar ...
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A taxonomic and distributional survey of marine benthonic Ostracoda o Kerguelen and Heard Islands, South Indian Ocean
... PREVIOUS RESEARCH ON DEEP-SEA OSTRACODA The earliest report on the ostracods from the area of the Kerguelen Plateau was that of Brady (1880), who listed 32 podocopid species from three Challenger stations ...
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Living in a fluid dynamical landscape : how do marine predators respond to turbulence?
... greater proportion of observations in the southern portion of the plume in the Guinet et al. [Guinet et al., 2013] study, a region where we also found that subsurface maxima were less common (∼4% of profiles for ...
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The field and remote sensing analysis of the Kerguelen Archipelago structure, Indian Ocean
... The Kerguelen Archipelago is the largest onshore area of the Kerguelen Plateau ...on Kerguelen and provide a tectonic context for the ...
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