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
Reid K
(2007)
The power of ecosystem monitoring
in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Phillips R
(2007)
Foraging ecology of albatrosses and petrels from South Georgia: two decades of insights from tracking technologies
in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Hastie L
(2009)
Reproductive biology of the loliginid squid, Alloteuthis subulata , in the north-east Atlantic and adjacent waters
in Aquatic Living Resources
Topping J
(2006)
Bacterioplankton composition in the Scotia Sea, Antarctica, during the austral summer of 2003
in Aquatic Microbial Ecology
Trathan P
(2008)
Population assessments of gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) breeding at an important Antarctic tourist site, Goudier Island, Port Lockroy, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica
in Biological Conservation
Phillips R
(2006)
Year-round distribution of white-chinned petrels from South Georgia: Relationships with oceanography and fisheries
in Biological Conservation
Hill SL
(2006)
Modelling Southern Ocean ecosystems: krill, the food-web, and the impacts of harvesting.
in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Leaper R
(2006)
Global climate drives southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) population dynamics.
in Biology letters