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
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
Kimmerer W
(2007)
Estimating juvenile copepod growth rates: corrections, inter-comparisons and recommendations
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Green J
(2009)
Evaluating the prudence of parents: daily energy expenditure throughout the annual cycle of a free-ranging bird, the macaroni penguin Eudyptes chrysolophus
in Journal of Avian Biology
Meredith M
(2008)
Evolution of the Deep and Bottom Waters of the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, during 1995-2005*
in Journal of Climate
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
Tarling G
(2007)
External parasite infestation depends on moult-frequency and age in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba)
in Polar Biology
M. Burg T
(2006)
Extrapair paternities in black-browed Thalassarche melanophris , grey-headed T. chrysostoma and wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans at South Georgia
in Journal of Avian Biology
Catry P
(2006)
Factors affecting the solution of a parental dilemma in albatrosses: at what age should chicks be left unattended?
in Animal Behaviour
Shreeve R
(2009)
Feeding ecology of myctophid fishes in the northern Scotia Sea
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
ENGEL M
(2009)
Feeding grounds of the western South Atlantic humpback whale population
in Marine Mammal Science