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| | 'Key food source shrinks' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21) |
 | | New York - A key food source for Antarctic seals, whales and penguins has declined about 80% since the 1970s in ocean waters near the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers report. |
 | | The overall effect of the decline in stocks of krill, a shrimp-like crustacean, isn't clear, but the finding suggests "we need to do some more work quite urgently to find out what's going to happen", said marine biologist Angus Atkinson. |
 | | Eileen Hofmann, professor of oceanography at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, said if the study is born out by further work, it means climate change is affecting the marine food web in the Antarctic Peninsula region. |
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