BAS Discovery 2010 - Integrating Southern Ocean Ecosystems into the Earth System
Lead Research Organisation:
NERC British Antarctic Survey
Abstract
The DISCOVERY 2010 Programme investigated the response of an ocean ecosystem to climate variability, climate change and commercial exploitation. The Programme built on past studies by the British Antarctic Survey on the detailed nature of the South Georgia marine ecosystem and its links with the large-scale physical and biological behaviour of the Southern Ocean. The aim was to identify, quantify and model key interactions and processes on scales that range from microscopic life forms to higher predators (penguins, albatrosses, seals and whales), and from the local to the circumpolar. Objectives were: a) to assess the links between the status of local marine food webs and variability and change in the Southern Ocean; b) to develop a linked set of ecosystem models applying relevant marine physics and biology over scales from the local to that of the entire Southern Ocean.
People |
ORCID iD |
| Eugene John Murphy (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Ahmed S
(2009)
Isolation and characterization of macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) microsatellite loci and their utility in other penguin species (Spheniscidae, AVES).
in Molecular ecology resources
Anderson O
(2008)
Diet, individual specialisation and breeding of brown skuas (Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi): an investigation using stable isotopes
in Polar Biology
Anderson O
(2009)
Influence of trophic position and foraging range on mercury levels within a seabird community
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Arnold JM
(2006)
Albatross populations in peril: a population trajectory for black-browed albatrosses at south Georgia.
in Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America
Atkinson A
(2009)
A re-appraisal of the total biomass and annual production of Antarctic krill
in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
Atkinson A
(2008)
Oceanic circumpolar habitats of Antarctic krill
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Bailey DM
(2009)
Long-term changes in deep-water fish populations in the northeast Atlantic: a deeper reaching effect of fisheries?
in Proceedings. Biological sciences
Bearhop S
(2006)
Stable isotopes indicate sex-specific and long-term individual foraging specialisation in diving seabirds
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Belchier M
(2008)
Recruitment and body size in relation to temperature in juvenile Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) at South Georgia
in Marine Biology