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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| Eugene John Murphy (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Cherel Y
(2006)
Stable isotope evidence of diverse species-specific and individual wintering strategies in seabirds.
in Biology letters
Clarke A
(2007)
Climate change and the marine ecosystem of the western Antarctic Peninsula.
in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
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
Clarke A
(2008)
Adult antarctic krill feeding at abyssal depths.
in Current biology : CB
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
Clarke S
(2008)
Biology and distribution of South Georgia icefish ( Pseudochaenichthys georgianus ) around South Georgia and Shag Rocks
in Antarctic Science
Collins M
(2008)
Distribution, growth, diet and foraging behaviour of the yellow-fin notothen Patagonotothen guntheri (Norman) on the Shag Rocks shelf (Southern Ocean)
in Journal of Fish Biology
Collins M
(2007)
Distribution and diet of juvenile Patagonian toothfish on the South Georgia and Shag Rocks shelves (Southern Ocean)
in Marine Biology
Collins M
(2008)
Patterns in the distribution of myctophid fish in the northern Scotia Sea ecosystem
in Polar Biology
Collins MA
(2006)
Southern Ocean cephalopods.
in Advances in marine biology