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
Hogg A
(2008)
Eddy Heat Flux in the Southern Ocean: Response to Variable Wind Forcing
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
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
Gaten E
(2008)
Is vertical migration in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) influenced by an underlying circadian rhythm?
in Journal of genetics
Venables H
(2010)
Phytoplankton and light limitation in the Southern Ocean: Learning from high-nutrient, high-chlorophyll areas
in Journal of Geophysical Research
Whitehouse M
(2008)
Formation, transport and decay of an intense phytoplankton bloom within the High-Nutrient Low-Chlorophyll belt of the Southern Ocean
in Journal of Marine Systems
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
Pond D
(2006)
Monitoring microbial predator-prey interactions: an experimental study using fatty acid biomarker and compound-specific stable isotope techniques
in Journal of Plankton Research
Yebra L
(2006)
Assessment of Calanus finmarchicus growth and dormancy using the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases method
in Journal of Plankton Research
Cresswell K
(2009)
Diel vertical migration of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is flexible during advection across the Scotia Sea
in Journal of Plankton Research