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.
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| Eugene John Murphy (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Topping J
(2006)
Bacterioplankton composition in the Scotia Sea, Antarctica, during the austral summer of 2003
in Aquatic Microbial Ecology
Buchholz C
(2006)
On the timing of moulting processes in reproductively active Northern krill Meganyctiphanes norvegica
in Marine Biology
Hirst A
(2006)
Effects of evolution on egg development time
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Yebra L
(2006)
Assessment of Calanus finmarchicus growth and dormancy using the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases method
in Journal of Plankton Research
Young I
(2006)
The Moray Firth directed squid fishery
in Fisheries Research
Davis D
(2006)
Spatial and temporal variability in the fish diet of Antarctic fur seal ( Arctocephalus gazella ) in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean
in Canadian Journal of Zoology
Clarke A
(2006)
An introduction to EASIZ (Ecology of the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone): An integrated programme of water column, benthos and bentho-pelagic coupling in the coastal environment of Antarctica
in Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Meredith M
(2006)
Circumpolar response of Southern Ocean eddy activity to a change in the Southern Annular Mode
in Geophysical Research Letters
Stowasser G
(2006)
Experimental study on the effect of diet on fatty acid and stable isotope profiles of the squid Lolliguncula brevis
in Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
M. Burg T
(2006)
Extrapair paternities in black-browed Thalassarche melanophris , grey-headed T. chrysostoma and wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans at South Georgia
in Journal of Avian Biology