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1. Climate change and precautionary spatial protection: ice shelves

   Abstract:  Regional climate change is now known to be well established in the Antarctic, particularly in the Antarctic Peninsula region. One of the most evident signs of climate change has been ice shelf collapse; overall, 87% of the Peninsula’s glaciers have retreated in recent decades. Ice shelf

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/17 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan and S.M. Grant (UK)

2. Climate change and precautionary spatial protection: seasonal sea ice

   Abstract:   Regional climate change is now known to be well established in the Antarctic; however, the implications for biological systems remain poorly understood. Investigating how marine species respond to climate change is potentially best carried out in regions and with species that have been

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/18 : Author(s): P.N. Trathan and S.M. Grant (UK)

3. Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean: update on current status of designated areas

   Abstract:  The development of a representative system of Antarctic marine protected areas (MPAs) will require up to date information on the location, conservation aims and current status of protected areas designated within the Convention Area. As at August 2011, there is one designated MPA managed

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/19 : Author(s): S.M. Grant and P.N. Trathan (UK)

4. A toolbox of Marine Protected Area management techniques for the area covered by the Antarctic Treaty and by CCAMLR

   Abstract:  This paper is submitted for background information.  Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are an important tool for biodiversity protection and marine conservation programmes globally. Although most MPAs have been established relatively recently compared to protected areas on land, there is

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/21 : Author(s): WWF and UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office

5. Designing Marine Protected Area networks: insights from the CHARM3 project

   Abstract:  This paper presents results from two analyses that have been undertaken as part of Action 12 of the CHARM3 project, which focuses on spatial conservation planning in the English Channel. The first analysis investigates the use of species area curves for setting marine habitat targets and

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/22 : Author(s): R.J. Smith and K. Metcalfe (UK)

6. A hierarchical classification of benthic biodiversity and assessment of protected areas in the Southern Ocean

   Abstract:  An international effort is underway to establish a representative system of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Southern Ocean to help provide for the long-term conservation of marine biodiversity in the region. Critical to this undertaking is understanding the distribution of benthic

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/23 : Author(s): L.L. Douglass, J. Turner, H.S. Grantham, S. Kaiser, R. Nicoll, A. Post, A. Brandt and D. Beaver (WWF–ASOC)

7. Conservation of Antarctic pack-ice seals with increasing krill fishing and environmental change

   Abstract:  The management of Antarctic krill and conservation of its predators requires understanding about the compound effects of changing habitats, ecosystem interactions, and fishing practices. For Antarctic pack-ice seals, a main group of krill predators, we report the spatial density and

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/24 : Author(s): J. Forcada, P.N. Trathan (UK), P.L. Boveng (USA), I.L. Boyd (UK), D.P. Costa (USA), M. Fedak (UK), T.L. Rogers and C.J. Southwell (Australia)

8. Estimating the biodiversity of the sub-Antarctic Indian part for the ecoregionalisation of CCAMLR areas 58.5.1 and 58.6: Part II. foraging habitats of top predators from French Antarctic Territories – areas of ecological significance in the Southern Ocean

   Abstract:  Preliminary analysis of long term dataset on individual tracking of 19 species of seabirds and seals breeding in the French Southern Territories (Crozet, Kerguelen and Amsterdam Islands) to identify area of importance for conservation in the Southern Ocean. The preliminary results on

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/08 : Author(s): K. Delord, C. Bost, C. Guinet and H. Weimerskirch (France)

9. Estimating the biodiversity of the sub-Antarctic Indian part for ecoregionalisation: Part I. Pelagic realm of CCAMLR areas 58.5.1 and 58.6

   Abstract:  Two studies are tabled for the Subantarctic pelagic area of CCAMLR areas 58.5.1 and 58.6, which covers the Crozet Basin and the north of the Kerguelen Plateau: one based on marine pelagic species (plankton and fish), and the second on top predators. In this report, we followed three

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/10 : Author(s): P. Koubbi (France), P.A. Hulley (South Africa), B. Raymond (Australia), F. Penot, S. Gasparini, J.P. Labat, P. Pruvost (France), S. Mormède (New Zealand), J.O. Irisson, G. Duhamel and P. Mayzaud (France)

10. Focal areas for marine biodiversity protection in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Marine Systematic Conservation Plan Analyses (SeaPLAN): Summary of Results 2011

    Abstract:  Multi-resolution conservation planning: Designing MPA networks linking inshore and offshore ecosystems Inshore and offshore marine conservation plans are often developed independently. This approach ignores ecological connectivity among ecosystems, across scales, and is economically

    Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/12 : Author(s): T. Livingstone, J. Harris, M. Lombard and E. Lagabrielle (South Africa)

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