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Developing a penguin tracking database to help determine their most important foraging areas
Abstract: In late 2012 SCAR, BirdLife and BAS developed a successful proposal (to the UK Darwin ... Plus Fund) to build an integrated database that would facilitate the analysis of penguin tracking data ... attach a range of access levels; access may be granted only to the data holder, to a wider group, or to a ... inform a variety of CCAMLR analyses, including work on the development of a variety of feedback ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/18 : Author(s): M. Hindell (SCAR), B. Lascelles (BirdLife) and P. Trathan (United Kingdom)
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Acoustic estimates of krill density at South Georgia during 11 austral summers between 1981 and 1998
north-eastern and north-western ends of South Georgia. In four of these years density was higher to the ... of the summers between 1990 and 1998 it was possible to calculate separate density estimates for ... Abstract: Acoustic estimates of densities of Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, at South Georgia ... are presented for eleven austral summers between 1981 and 1998. Krill abundance at the island ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/51 : Author(s): A.S. Brierley, J.L. Watkins, C. Goss, M.T. Wilkinson and I. Everson (UK)
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Chick provisioning and chick survival to fledging
Abstract: This paper examines the foraging behaviour of Adélie penguin parents and the ... provisioning of their chicks during the guard and crèche stages of chick development. The differences, observed ... in three poor breeding seasons compared with six seasons where a higher fledging success was achieved ... , are highlighted. A continuous collection of data on foraging trip duration and meal mass (arrival ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/40 : Author(s): J. Clarke, K. Kerry, L. Irvine and B. Philips (Australia)
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A Proposal for a new Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA)
XXII, 1 – 11 July). In order to fulfill the requirements of ATCM Decision 9 (2005), the management plan ... of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting- Committee for Environmental Protection (ATCM XLII- CEP ... Island, Palmer Archipelago, has been submitted by the United States for consideration at the 2019 Meeting ... Document Release Consent: No Delegation responsibility for releasing documents: United States of America ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-2019/01 : Author(s): P. Penhale
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Guidelines to whale photo-identification from fishing boats derived from experience in Kerguelen (ASD 58.5.1) and Crozet (ASD 58.6)
-identification program. This document could be part of the resources provided by CCAMLR on its website. Author ... Abstract: Scientific observers on board vessels fishing in Kerguelen and Crozet EEZ have ... contributed to a whale photo-identification program for several years. This paper describes the gear used ... , camera settings, data checking at sea and the information needed to identify individuals and interactions ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-13/08 : Author(s): N. Gasco, P. Tixier and C. Guinet (France)
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SKATE DIET AT SOUTH GEORGIA INDICATES BENTHIC HABIT OF KRILL
were collected during three groundfish surveys (winter 2007, 2008 and summer 2009) around the island of ... South Georgia, Southern Ocean. The diet of A. georgiana varied with skate size and between years ... presence of Antarctic krill in this skate’s diet indicates a benthic habit of this euphausiid species ... , polychaetes and other benthic fauna. The Antarctic skate appears to be an opportunistic predator and the clear ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-09/15 : Author(s): C.E. Main and M.A. Collins (United Kingdom)
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Population dynamics of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses Diomedea melanophris and D. chrysostoma at Bird Island, South Georgia
Albatross colonies decreased, at an average rate of 1.8% per annum. Although the total Black-browed ... Albatross population increased (at 0.8% pa.), 14 of the 23 colonies (including both study colonies ... ) decreased. Black-browed Albatrosses follow an annual breeding cycle, with over 80% of birds successful in ... rearing a chick and 75% of those failing to do so returning to breed the next year, 5-10% of both ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XII/BG/21 : Author(s): Delegation of United Kingdom
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Lipid metabolism features of Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni (Nototheniidae)
specimens of Antarctic toothfish Dissostichus mawsoni (Perciformes: Nototheniidae) caught in the Ross Sea ... are given. Blood plasma, tissues mesonephric kidney, liver and spleen were studied for the content of ... . Biochemical status of immune organs depending on the structural and functional characteristics of tissues was ... Abstract: Lipid metabolism and indices of oxidation processes obtained during examination of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/25 : Author(s): I.I. Gordeev, D.V. Mikryakov, N.I. Silkina and A.S. Sokolova
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Ingestion of anthropogenic articles by seabirds at Macquarie Island
regurgitations and the stomachs of seabirds at Macquarie Island; these were ingested both at sea and on land ... . Plastic particles were recorded from the stomachs of Southern Giant Petrels, Subantarctic Skuas, and Kelp ... Gulls. Birds examined in 1988 had a higher frequency of occurrence of foreign objects than birds ... Abstract: Plastic particles and Other anthropogenic materials were recorded from the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-VIII/BG/12 : Author(s): D.J. Slip, K. Green and E. Woehler (Australia)
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Collected data and stock assessment results for Notothenia squamifrons from Ob and Lena Banks, Division 58.4.4
, Division 58.4.4, are presented for the period from 1978 to 1990 split years. These data were used in VPA ... may be used in calculation of TAC which in accordance with our calculations should be 2.0 x 103 tonnes ... analyses made for each bank separately. The CCAMLR VPA program, version 4.1 was used. The resulted biomass ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-92/05 : Author(s): A.K. Zaitsev and S.M. Pronenko (Ukraine)