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
Ritz MS
(2008)
Phylogeography of the southern skua complex-rapid colonization of the southern hemisphere during a glacial period and reticulate evolution.
in Molecular phylogenetics and evolution
Rogers AD
(2007)
Introduction. Antarctic ecology: from genes to ecosystems. Part 2. Evolution, diversity and functional ecology.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Sato K
(2007)
Stroke frequency, but not swimming speed, is related to body size in free-ranging seabirds, pinnipeds and cetaceans.
in Proceedings. Biological sciences
Semmens J
(2007)
Approaches to resolving cephalopod movement and migration patterns
in Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Shreeve R
(2009)
Feeding ecology of myctophid fishes in the northern Scotia Sea
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Staniland I
(2007)
An energy-distance trade-off in a central-place forager, the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella)
in Marine Biology
Staniland I
(2008)
Segregation between the sexes: Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, foraging at South Georgia
in Animal Behaviour
Stevens C
(2008)
Ontogenetic shifts in the trophic ecology of two alvinocaridid shrimp species at hydrothermal vents on the Mariana Arc, western Pacific Ocean
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Stowasser G
(2009)
Trophic position of deep-sea fish-Assessment through fatty acid and stable isotope analyses
in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
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