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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ORCID iD |
| Eugene John Murphy (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Trathan P
(2008)
Linear tracks and restricted temperature ranges characterise penguin foraging pathways
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
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
Trathan PN
(2007)
Environmental forcing and Southern Ocean marine predator populations: effects of climate change and variability.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
Turner J
(2009)
Vision in lanternfish (Myctophidae): Adaptations for viewing bioluminescence in the deep-sea
in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
Vargas F
(2008)
Effects of climate variation on the abundance and distribution of flamingos in the Galápagos Islands
in Journal of Zoology
Varpe Ø
(2009)
The adaptive value of energy storage and capital breeding in seasonal environments
in Oikos
Venables H
(2010)
Phytoplankton and light limitation in the Southern Ocean: Learning from high-nutrient, high-chlorophyll areas
in Journal of Geophysical Research
Waluda C
(2006)
Remotely sensed mesoscale oceanography of the Central Eastern Pacific and recruitment variability in Dosidicus gigas
in Marine Ecology Progress Series