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
Phillips R
(2006)
Year-round distribution of white-chinned petrels from South Georgia: Relationships with oceanography and fisheries
in Biological Conservation
Phillips R
(2016)
Efficacy and effects of diet sampling of albatross chicks
in Emu - Austral Ornithology
Phillips R
(2007)
Movements, winter distribution and activity patterns of Falkland and brown skuas: insights from loggers and isotopes
in Marine Ecology Progress Series
Pollard RT
(2009)
Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization.
in Nature
Poncet S
(2006)
Status and distribution of wandering, black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses breeding at South Georgia
in Polar Biology
Pond D
(2008)
Vertebrate nutrition in a deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystem: Fatty acid and stable isotope evidence
in Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
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
Poulton A
(2007)
Phytoplankton community composition around the Crozet Plateau, with emphasis on diatoms and Phaeocystis
in Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography