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
Bell M
(2007)
Application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton
in Journal of Plankton Research
Biuw M
(2007)
Variations in behavior and condition of a Southern Ocean top predator in relation to in situ oceanographic conditions.
in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Bost CA
(2009)
Where do penguins go during the inter-breeding period? Using geolocation to track the winter dispersion of the macaroni penguin.
in Biology letters
Buchholz C
(2006)
On the timing of moulting processes in reproductively active Northern krill Meganyctiphanes norvegica
in Marine Biology
Buitenhuis E
(2006)
Biogeochemical fluxes through mesozooplankton BIOGEOCHEMICAL FLUXES THROUGH MESOZOOPLANKTON
in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Campagna C
(2007)
A species approach to marine ecosystem conservation
in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Catry P
(2006)
Factors affecting the solution of a parental dilemma in albatrosses: at what age should chicks be left unattended?
in Animal Behaviour
Catry P
(2006)
Senescence effects in an extremely long-lived bird: the grey-headed albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma.
in Proceedings. Biological sciences
Catry P
(2010)
Brood-guarding duration in black-browed albatrosses Thalassarche melanophris: temporal, geographical and individual variation
in Journal of Avian Biology
Catry T
(2009)
Movements, at-sea distribution and behaviour of a tropical pelagic seabird: the wedge-tailed shearwater in the western Indian Ocean
in Marine Ecology Progress Series