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
Suhr S
(2008)
Trophic modes of large Antarctic Foraminifera: roles of carnivory, omnivory, and detritivory
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Anderson O
(2008)
Diet, individual specialisation and breeding of brown skuas (Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi): an investigation using stable isotopes
in Polar Biology
Johnson M
(2008)
Influence of individual state on swimming capacity and behaviour of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Belchier M
(2008)
Recruitment and body size in relation to temperature in juvenile Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) at South Georgia
in Marine Biology
Reed TE
(2008)
Parasite treatment affects maternal investment in sons.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Hirst A
(2008)
Spring mortality of the cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis in polar waters
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
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
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
Meredith M
(2008)
Evolution of the Deep and Bottom Waters of the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, during 1995-2005*
in Journal of Climate