Krill

Euphausia superba, an Antarctic krill species. Source: CC-sa-3.0

Baseline Research on Oceanography, Krill and Environment (BROKE)

Published: March 30, 2010, 12:00 am

Updated: July 1, 2012, 4:22 pm

Topics:

Marine Ecology (main) Oceans and seas (main) Zoology (main)

The Baseline Research on Oceanography, Krill and Environment (BROKE) was a study conducted off of east Antarctica in the Austral summer of 1995–96. The primary focus of this research was to describe the distribution and abundance of Antarctic krill and to determine possible sources of Antarctic Bottom Water in the region.

This article is written at a definitional level only. Authors wishing to expand this entry are inivited to expand the present treatment, which additions will be peer reviewed prior to publication of any expansion.

Further Reading

• Physical Oceanography Index
• S. Nicol, T. Pauly, N. L. Bindoff, and P. G. Strutton. “BROKE” a biological/oceanographic survey off the coast of East Antarctica (80–150?E) in January–March 1996. Deep–Sea Res. II, 47:2281–227, 2000.

Citation

Baum, S. (2012). Baseline Research on Oceanography, Krill and Environment (BROKE). Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/krill