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
Bell M
(2007)
Application of liposome and stable isotope tracer techniques to study polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in marine zooplankton
in Journal of Plankton Research
Vargas F
(2008)
Effects of climate variation on the abundance and distribution of flamingos in the Galápagos Islands
in Journal of Zoology
Xavier J
(2006)
Predator-prey interactions: why do larger albatrosses eat bigger squid?
in Journal of Zoology
Xavier J
(2007)
Interannual variations in cephalopod consumption by albatrosses at South Georgia: implications for future commercial exploitation of cephalopods
in Marine and Freshwater Research
Collins M
(2007)
Distribution and diet of juvenile Patagonian toothfish on the South Georgia and Shag Rocks shelves (Southern Ocean)
in Marine Biology
Belchier M
(2008)
Recruitment and body size in relation to temperature in juvenile Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) at South Georgia
in Marine Biology
Buchholz C
(2006)
On the timing of moulting processes in reproductively active Northern krill Meganyctiphanes norvegica
in Marine Biology
Gillibrand E
(2006)
Deep sea benthic bioluminescence at artificial food falls, 1,000-4,800 m depth, in the Porcupine Seabight and Abyssal Plain, North East Atlantic Ocean
in Marine Biology
Staniland I
(2007)
An energy-distance trade-off in a central-place forager, the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella)
in Marine Biology