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
Kemp K
(2008)
A new technique for periodic bait release at a deep-sea camera platform: First results from the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
in Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
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
Campagna C
(2007)
A species approach to marine ecosystem conservation
in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Clarke A
(2008)
Adult antarctic krill feeding at abyssal depths.
in Current biology : CB
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
Staniland I
(2007)
An energy-distance trade-off in a central-place forager, the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella)
in Marine Biology
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
Suhr S
(2006)
Antarctic benthic foraminifera facilitate rapid cycling of phytoplankton-derived organic carbon
in Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Clarke A
(2007)
Antarctic ecology from genes to ecosystems: the impact of climate change and the importance of scale.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences