Antarctic krill store as much carbon as the world’s mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass beds
For the first time, we used a computer model of ocean currents to show that krill waste products don’t need to reach great ...
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License To Krill: There’s A New Threat To Whales And Its Just as Bad as the Last One
Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to 6 tons of krill ...
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Tiny Antarctic krill store enormous amounts of carbon
The new findings reveal that Antarctic krill store amounts of carbon that are comparable to critical blue carbon habitats ...
Antarctic krill can lock away similar levels of carbon as seagrass and mangroves, finds study
Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, ...
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Krill can store as much carbon as mangroves & seagrass, study finds
They might be small, but they're certainly mighty: krill play a major role in carbon sequestering in oceans across the world.
Whales need krill to survive. We want it for supplements.
According to their results, the current krill biomass can’t support both the expanding krill fishery and the recovery of the ...
Surface water sampling reveals large numbers of juvenile krill undetected by conventional monitoring methods
In 2018–2019, researchers of Wageningen Marine Research joined the Japanese research vessel Kaiyo-maru (Fisheries Agency ...
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Antarctic krill can lock away similar levels of carbon as seagrass and mangroves
Krill are eaten by larger animals in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica such as whales, seals and penguins, but are also fished for food and fishing bait, and for use in aquaculture and dietary ...
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Antarctic Krill Store As Much Carbon As The World's Mangroves, Salt Marshes And Seagrass Beds
They are nature's heroes, helping to transport carbon out of the atmosphere and store it deep inside the ocean. Krill are best known for the key role they play in Southern Ocean ecosystems.