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
Cook K
(2007)
Naupliar development times and survival of the copepods Calanus helgolandicus and Calanus finmarchicus in relation to food and temperature
in Journal of Plankton Research
Cresswell K
(2007)
Behaviour affects local-scale distributions of Antarctic krill around South Georgia
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Cresswell K
(2009)
Diel vertical migration of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is flexible during advection across the Scotia Sea
in Journal of Plankton Research
Davis D
(2006)
Spatial and temporal variability in the fish diet of Antarctic fur seal ( Arctocephalus gazella ) in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean
in Canadian Journal of Zoology
ENGEL M
(2009)
Feeding grounds of the western South Atlantic humpback whale population
in Marine Mammal Science
Fach B
(2006)
Transport of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) across the Scotia Sea. Part II: Krill growth and survival
in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
Fielding S
(2007)
Community structure and grazing impact of mesozooplankton during late spring/early summer 2004/2005 in the vicinity of the Crozet Islands (Southern Ocean)
in Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
FORCADA J
(2008)
Life history buffering in Antarctic mammals and birds against changing patterns of climate and environmental variation LIFE HISTORY BUFFERING TO ANTARCTIC CLIMATE
in Global Change Biology