Project

4037

Chief Investigator

KAWAGUCHI, Dr So - Australian Antarctic Division

Title

Experimental krill biology: Response of krill to environmental change

Project aims

The experimental krill research project is designed to focus on obtaining life history information of use in managing the krill fishery - the largest Antarctic fishery. In particular, the project will concentrate on studies into impacts of climate change on key aspects of krill biology and ecology.

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Project Summary of the Season 2012/13

The experimental krill research project is designed to focus on obtaining life history information of use in managing the krill fishery - the largest Antarctic fishery. In particular, the project will concentrate on studies into impacts of climate change on key aspects of krill biology and ecology. The project assessed the impacts of increasing CO2 level on early life stages of Antarctic krill and its implications to future krill population.

Project Summary of the Season 2013/14

The experimental krill research project is designed to focus on obtaining life history information of use in managing the krill fishery - the largest Antarctic fishery. In particular, the project will concentrate on studies into impacts of climate change on key aspects of krill biology and ecology. The project assessed the impacts of increasing CO2 level on early life stages of Antarctic krill and its implications to future krill population.

Project Summary of the Season 2014/15

The experimental krill research project is designed to focus on obtaining life history information of use in managing the krill fishery - the largest Antarctic fishery. In particular, the project will concentrate on studies into impacts of climate change on key aspects of krill biology and ecology. The project continued to assess the impacts of increasing CO2 level on early life stages of Antarctic krill and its implications to future krill population.

Project Summary of the Season 2015/16

The experimental krill research project is designed to focus on obtaining life history information of use in managing the krill fishery - the largest Antarctic fishery. In particular, the project will concentrate on studies into impacts of climate change on key aspects of krill biology and ecology. The project continued to primarily assess the impacts of increasing CO2 level on early life stages of Antarctic krill and its implications to future krill population.

Project Summary of the Season 2016/17

The experimental krill research project is designed to focus on obtaining life history information of use in managing the krill fishery - the largest Antarctic fishery. In particular, the project concentrates on studies into impacts of climate change on key aspects of krill biology and ecology. The project continued to primarily assess the impacts of increasing CO2 level on early life stages of Antarctic krill and its implications to future krill population.

Project Summary of the Season 2017/18

The experimental krill research project is designed to focus on obtaining life history information of use in managing the krill fishery - the largest Antarctic fishery. In particular, the project concentrates on studies into impacts of climate change on key aspects of krill biology and ecology. The project continued to primarily assess the impacts of increasing CO2 level on Antarctic krill and its implications to future krill population.

Final Summary of Project Achievements

Antarctic krill is the key species of the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Its fishery is rapidly expanding and it is vulnerable to changes in climate.
This project was designed to focus on obtaining life history information of use in managing the krill fishery - the largest Antarctic fishery. In particular, the project focussed on studies into impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on key aspects of krill biology and ecology.
Through this project, we demonstrated embryos of krill are vulnerable to increasing CO2 and is likely to be impacted by CO2 levels expected in 100 to 300 years but adult krill are resilient to CO2 expected in the near future.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Cuzin-Roudy J., Irisson J.-O. , Penot F., Kawaguchi S., Vallet C. (2014) Southern Ocean euphausiids, in: de Broyer C., Koubbi P. (eds) The Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean Ch. 6.9. 309-320; [Ref: 15490]

Auerswald, L., Meyer B., Teschke M., Hagen W., Kawaguchi S. (2015) Physiological response of adult Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, to long-term starvation, Polar Biology 38(6). 763-780; [Ref: 15519]

Bellini N., Cox M.J., Harper D.J., Stott S.R., Ashok P.C., Dholakia K., Kawaguchi S., King R., Horton T., Brown C.T.A. (2014) The Application of Optical Coherence Tomography to Image Subsurface Tissue Structure of Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba, PLoS ONE 9(10). e110367; [Ref: 15520]

Groeneveld J., Johst K., Kawaguchi S., Meyer B., Teschke M., Grimm V. (2015) How biological clocks and changing environmental conditions determine local population growth and species distribution in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba): a conceptual model, Ecological Modelling 303. 78-86; [Ref: 15521]

Meyer B., Martini P., Biscontin A., De Pittà C., Romualdi C., Teschke M., Frickenhaus S., Harms L., Freier U., Jarman S., Kawaguchi S. (2015) Pyrosequencing and de novo assembly of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) transcriptome to study the adaptability of krill to climate-induced environmental changes, Molecular Ecology Resources 12pp; [Ref: 15522]

Kawaguchi S., Nicol S. (2014) Antarctic Krill, in: Laffoley D., Baxter J.M., Thevenon F., Oliver J. (eds) The Significance and Management of Natural Carbon Stores in the Open Ocean Ch. 3.5. 69-78; [Ref: 15528]

Cox M.J., Kawaguchi S., King R., Dholakia K., Brown C.T.A. (2015) Internal physiology of live krill revealed using new aquaria techniques and mixed optical microscopy and optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging techniques, Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology .; [Ref: 15595]

Deagle B.E., Faux C., Kawaguchi S., Meyer B., Jarman S.N. (2015) Antarctic krill population genomics: apparent panmixia, but genome complexity and large population size muddy the water, Molecular Ecology 24(19). 4943-4959; [Ref: 15795]

Virtue P., Meyer B., Freier U., Nichols P.D., Jia Z., King R., Virtue J., Swadling K.M., Meiners K.M., Kawaguchi S. (2016) Condition of larval (furcilia VI) and one year juvenile Euphausia superba during the winter-spring transition in East Antarctica, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 131. 182-188; [Ref: 15952]

Wallis J.R., Kawaguchi S., Swadling K.M. (2018) Sexual differentiation, gonad maturation, and reproduction of the Southern Ocean euphausiid Thysanoessa macrura (Sars, 1883) (Crustacea: Euphausiacea), Journal of Crustacean Biology 38(1). 107-118; [Ref: 15973]

Kawaguchi S. (2016) Reproduction and larval development in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), The biology and ecology of Antarctic krill, advances in Polar Ecology, Springer International Publishing 225-246; [Ref: 16101]

Kilada R., Reiss C.S., Kawaguchi S., King R.A., Matsuda T., Ichii T. (2017) Validation of band counts in eyestalks for the determination of age of Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, PLOS one 14pp; [Ref: 16102]

Sales G., Deagle B.E., Calura E., Martini P., Biscontin A., De Pittà C., Kawaguchi S., Romualdi C., Meyer B., Costa R., Jarman S. (2017) KrillDB: A de novo transcriptome database for the Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), PLOS one 12pp; [Ref: 16103]

Virtue P., Meyer B., Freier U., Nichols P.D., Jia Z., King R., Virtue J., Swadling K.M, Meiners K.M., Kawaguchi S. (2016) Condition of larval (furcilia VI) and one year old juvenile Euphausia superba during the winter–spring transition in East Antarctica, Deep-Sea Research II 131 182-188; [Ref: 16104]

Ratnarajah L., Nicol S., Kawaguchi S., Townsend A.T., Lannuzel D., Meiners K.M., Bowie A.R. (2016) Understanding the variability in the iron concentration of Antarctic krill. , Limnology and Oceanography 61 1651-1660; [Ref: 16105]

Suter L., Polanowski A.M., King R., Romualdi C., Sales G., Kawaguchi S., Jarman S. N., Deagle B.E. (2019) Sex identification from distinctive gene expression patterns in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), Polar Biology 42 2205-2217; [Ref: 16288]

Dawson A., Kawaguchi S., King C.K., Townsend K., King R., Huston W., Bengtson Nash S. (2018) Turning Microplastics into Nanoplastics: Digestive Fragmentation by Antarctic krill, Nature Communications 9 1001. .; [Ref: 16306]

Dawson A., Huston W., Kawaguchi S., King C.K., Cropp R., Wild S., Eisenmann P., Townsend K., Bengtson Nash S.M. (2018) Uptake and depuration kinetics influence microplastic bioaccumulation and toxicity in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), Environmental Science and Technology 52(5). 3195-3201; [Ref: 16307]

Wynn-Edwards C., King R., Kawaguchi S., Davidson A., Wright S., Nichols P.D., Virtue P. (2014) Development of a Continuous Phytoplankton Culture System for Ocean Acidification Experiments, Water 6(6). 1860-1872; [Ref: 15258]

Wynn-Edwards C., King R., Davidson A., Wright S., Nichols P.D., Wotherspoon S., Kawaguchi S., Virtue P. (2014) Species-Specific Variations in the Nutritional Quality of Southern Ocean Phytoplankton in Response to Elevated pCO2, Water 6(6). 1840-1859; [Ref: 15259]

Kawaguchi S., Ishida A., King R., Raymond B., Waller N., Constable A., Nicol S., Wakita M., Ishimatsu A. (2013) Risk maps for Antarctic krill under projected Southern Ocean acidification, Nature Climate Change 3(9). 843-847; [Ref: 15280]

Brown M., Kawaguchi S., Candy S., Yoshida Y., Virtue P., Nicol S. (2013) Long-Term Effect of Photoperiod, Temperature and Feeding Regimes on the Respiration Rates of Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba), Open Journal of Marine Science 3. 40-51; [Ref: 15281]

Jia Z., Virtue P., Swadling K.M., Kawaguchi S. (2014) A photographic documentation of the development of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) from egg to early juvenile, Polar Biology 37. 165-179; [Ref: 15282]

Kinjo A., Koito T., Kawaguchi S., Inoue K. (2013) Evolutionary History of the GABA Transporter (GAT) Group Revealed by Marine Invertebrate GAT-1, PLoS ONE 8(12). e82410; [Ref: 15283]

Letessier T.B., Kawaguchi S., King R., Meeuwig J.J., Harcourt R., Cox M.J. (2013) A Robust and Economical Underwater Stereo Video System to Observe Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba), Open Journal of Marine Science 3. 148-153; [Ref: 15284]

Poulsen A.H., Landrum P.F., Kawaguchi S., Bengtson Nash S.M. (2013) Dietary exposure of Antarctic krill to p,p'-DDE: Uptake kinetics and toxicological sensitivity in a key polar species, Environmental Pollution 175. 92-99; [Ref: 15090]

Category 2: International meeting papers

Kawaguchi S. (2013) Some thoughts on our work towards establishing feedback management scheme for krill fishery, . CCAMLR WG-EMM-13/04 (restricted document); [Ref: 15287]

Category 3: Thesis, higher degree

Wynn-Edwards C. (2014) Effects of Ocean Acidification on the nutritional quality of Antarctic phytoplankton as food for Euphausia superba larvae, PhD thesis, University of Tasmania, Australia 267pp; [Ref: 15362]

Category 3: Verbal presentation

Kawaguchi S., King R., Waller N., Jia Z., Robinson J.P., Wynn-Edwards C., Deagle B., Jarman S., Ishida A., Wakita M., Nicol S., Virtue P., Kurihara H., Constable A., Smith B., Ishimatsu A. (2012) Impacts of ocean acidification on early development of Antarctic krill, Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World, Monterey, California, USA, 24-27 September 2012 .; [Ref: 15091]