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Pygoscelis penguin colonies census in the Vernadsky Antarctic station area (Statistical Subarea 48.1)
provided during 2017-2018 breeding season. The Pygoscelis penguins in the region of research are mainly ... gentoo penguin, which has formed 14 autonomous colonies with about 13320 of breeding pairs total and ... colonies with 5300 nesting pairs and 800 immature penguins. Inside of the Adelie penguin specie family ... , there is significantly higher percentage of birds which not involved in the reproduction process. This ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/25 : Author(s): V.M. Smagol, A.O. Dzhulay, I.V. Dykyy and G.P. Milinevsky
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Pygoscelis penguin census in the Vernadsky Antarctic station area
region of research are gentoo penguin, which has formed 14 separate colonies with about 13320 of breeding ... formed 8 nesting colonies with 5300 nesting pairs and 800 immature penguins. Inside of the Adelie penguin ... species family, there is a significantly higher percentage of birds which not involved in the reproduction ... process. This fact, to some extent, probably explains the depression of the world population of the Adelie ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXXVII/BG/06 : Author(s): V.M. Smagol, A.O. Dzhulay, I.V. Dykyy, G.P. Milinevsky and E.O. Dykyy
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Aerobic dive limit: how often does it occur in nature?
Abstract: Diving animals offer a unique opportunity to study the importance of physiological ... constraint in their everyday behaviors. An important component of the physiological capability of any diving ... animal is it’s aerobic dive limit (ADL). The ADL has only been measured in a few species. The goal of ... this study was to estimate the aerobic dive limit from measurements of body oxygen stores and at sea ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/48 : Author(s): D.P. Costa, N.J. Gales and M.E. Goebel (USA)
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Diseases outbreak threatens Southern Ocean albatrosses
Southern Ocean and in Antarctica no major outbreaks of infectious diseases have been reported, perhaps ... because of isolation and cold climate, although recent evidence suggest their presence. The major threat ... controversial long-lining that is assumed to be the cause for the major decline of albatrosses and petrels ... , Erysipelas bacteria) are the major cause of the decline on Amsterdam Island of the large yellow-nosed ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/32 : Author(s): H. Weimerskirch (France)
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Oceanic condition and zooplankton distribution/ abundance in Bransfield Strait during austral summer 1989/1990
to hydrographic condition, a total of 29 sampling stations was occupied for the CTD casts and ... plankton towings in a systematic grid from December 29, 1989 to January 7, 1990. Comparisons of temperature ... east of Trinity Island, then joins the Bellingshausen Sea water (warm and less saline water) near the ... south of Deception Island, and meanders northeastward in the surface layer of the northern strait ...
Meeting Document : WG-KRILL-91/14 : Author(s): S.M. Kim and M.S. Suk (Korea)
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Historical data synthesis in the Southern Ocean: Priority data sets
Abstract: As part of its long-term goal, ICED encourages the rescue and integration of existing ... data sets to enable investigation of long-term, large-scale ecosystem dynamics across the Southern ... , against which we can assess current and future dynamics of ecosystems under scenarios of climate and ... give an example of an historical data rescue project that is being conducted by ICED scientists at the ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-13/19 : Author(s): N.M. Johnston, E.J. Murphy, J.R.D. Silk, C.M. Waluda, S.L. Hill and R.D. Cavanagh (United Kingdom) on behalf of the ICED Scientific Steering Committee
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Report on a tuna long-lining fishing voyage aboard Southern Venture to observe seabird by-catch problems
Abstract: Incidental captures of seabirds, and the behaviour of seabirds around the fishing gear ... as it was deployed, were observed during 8-days' fishing of a New Zealand-owned tuna long-liner ... . From 11,200 hooks set 6 seabirds were hooked and recovered: 5 Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans of ... birds survived hooking in this study because of the lighter gear and quicker recovery of the long-line ...
Meeting Document : WG-IMALF-94/10 : Author(s): M.J. Imber (New Zealand)
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Pleuragramma antarcticum distribution in the Ross Sea during late austral summer 2013
Abstract: Research during the last decade has revealed much about the early life history of ... Pleuragramm antarcticum, including confirmation of the first known nursery ground in Terra Nova Bay. However ... the central Ross Sea and one location in the far south of the eastern Ross Sea (in the Bay of Whales ... ). Larval P. antarcticum made up more than 99% of the icthyoplankton in the western Ross Sea. Most of these ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/38 : Author(s): C. Brooks and K. Goetz (USA)
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Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean (ICED) programme: developing links between ICED and CCAMLR
programme of the Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) Programme and is closely ... analyses to improve our understanding of change and the implications for Southern Ocean ecosystems and for ... management of human impacts. A diverse range of multidisciplinary research is underway through core ... been made in understanding the structure and functioning of ecosystems, modelling species and food webs ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-16/22 : Author(s): E. Murphy, R. Cavanagh, N. Johnston, E. Hofmann and A. Constable
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Diet overlap among top predators at the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica
2000 at South Orkney Islands. Overall, the diet of most of the predators was mainly composed of krill ... , fish or penguins. The re-occurrence of prey among predators was intermediate and ranged from 25.3 to ... 36.7 and fish, krill and squid re-occurred most frequently. The re-occurrence of fish among predator ... had high overlap of fish prey. Predators that could forage on demersal or water column prey had yearly ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-18/04 : Author(s): M.L. Bertolin and R. Casaux