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1. Sea surface temerature anomalies near South Georgia: relationships with the South Atlantic and the Pacific El Niño regions

   anomalies, with periodicity evident at a lag period of 4 years. To the north of the island significant ... autocorrelation was also evident at a lag period of 1 year; though this was restricted to an area that ... approximately encompassed the Georgia Basin. Crosscorrelation analyses with indices describing the El Niñio ... areas of the Pacific indicated that temperature fluctuations at South Georgia reflected temperature ...

   Meeting Document : WS-AREA 48-98/10 : Author(s): P. Trathan and E.J. Murphy (UK)

2. Genetic identification of fish caught as by-catch in the Antarctic krill fishery and comparison with observer records

   48.1, 48.2 and 48.3) were identified by DNA barcoding and results compared with morphological ... barcoding markers allowed these specimens to be assigned to species level. The diversity of fish identified ... by observers (5 families; 8 species) was considerably lower than with DNA barcoding (7 families; 20 ... species). The impact of potential taxonomic misidentifications on fish bycatch datasets needs to be ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/30 : Author(s): A. Polanowski, J. Clark, D. Maschette, D. Welsford and B. Deagle

3. An assessment of seabird interactions with longlining operations for Dissostichus eleginoides around South Georgia, March–May 1997

   resulted, birds being released apparently unharmed. Black-browed albatrosses concentrated on taking ... resulted, birds being released apparently unharmed. Black-browed albatrosses concentrated on taking ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-97/09 : Author(s): Ashford, J.R., Croxall, J.P.

4. Integrated weight longlines with paired streamer lines – best management practice for demersal longline fisheries: preliminary results

   conclude that IW longlines deployed with paired streamer lines is the best mitigation practice available ... ) and integrated weight longlines (IW-50 g/m) with and without paired streamer lines (PS) in seabird ... demonstrated that IW longlines reduce risk to seabirds by minimizing the distance astern that birds have access ... to sinking baits (~50% reduction). This study and our data from 2000 and 2002, also clearly show that ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-06/52 : Author(s): K. Dietrich, E. Melvin and L. Conquest (USA)

5. Fishing equipment, marine debris and hydrocarbon soiling associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 2006/07

   reflecting discard of used baited hooks at sea. Entanglements continue to be observed with hooks being ... baited hooks at sea. Entanglements continue to be observed with hooks being typical of those used ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXVI/BG/18 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

6. Fishing equipment, marine debris and hydrocarbon soiling associated with seabirds at Bird Island, South Georgia, 2004/05

   significantly over the past two seasons. Entanglements continue to be observed, hooks being typical of those ... significantly over the past two seasons. Entanglements continue to be observed, hooks being typical of those ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXIV/BG/14 : Author(s): Delegation of the United Kingdom

7. At-sea distribution and diet of an endangered top predator: links of white-chinned petrels with commercial longline fisheries

   that at a large scale spatial and temporal overlap occurred and varied among areas and with breeding ... scale overlap estimates, suggesting that birds and vessels occupy the same overall zone with infrequent ... Abstract:  Incidental seabird mortality associated with longline commercial fishing is a worldwide ... of seabirds populations, overall large numbers of birds overlap with vessels and Management ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/P01 : Author(s): K. Delord, C. Cotté, C. Péron, C. Marteau, P. Pruvost, N. Gasco, G. Duhamel, Y. Cherel and H. Weimerskirch

8. The diet of toothfish species Dissostichus eleginoides Smitt and D. mawsoni Norman with overlapping distributions around the South Sandwich Islands, Southern Ocean

   . eleginoides) was examined around the south sandwich islands in the southern ocean, one of few regions with ... (schoener overlap index of 74.4 % based on prey mass) with finfish (particularly macrourids and ... correlated with their relative abundance around the islands derived from fishery bycatch data, suggesting a ... general lack of prey selectivity. This study supports the view that bathyal toothfish are opportunistic ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/P03 : Author(s): J. Roberts, J. Xavier and D. J. Agnew

9. Simulating nursery areas for Antarctic krill along the western Antarctic Peninsula with relevance for the Domain 1 MPA Planning process

   Antarctic marine food web. Observational and modelling studies have shown that development of the embryo and ... that conditions a successful completion of the cycle. The objective of the present study is to estimate ... , temperature-dependent model of the descent-ascent cycle of Antarctic krill embryos and larvae that was forced ... with temperature and density fields from a high-resolution model scaled by projections for 2030 for the ...

   Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVI/BG/12 : Author(s): Delegations of Argentina and Chile

10. PREDICTING SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS FROM MUSEUM AND HERBARIUM RECORDS USING MULTI-RESPONSE MODELS FITTED WITH MULTIVARIATE ADAPTIVE REGRESSION SPLINES

    Abstract:  Current circumstances — that the majority of species distribution records exist as ... presence-only data (e.g. from museums and herbaria), and that there is an established need for predictions ... of species distributions — mean that scientists and conservation managers seek to develop robust ... models (GAMs) that are commonly and successfully used in modelling species distributions, but has ...

    Meeting Document : WS-VME-09/P02 : Author(s): Elith, J., Leathwick, J.

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