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The fish diet of black-browed albatross Diomedea melanophrys and grey-headed albatross D. chrysostoma at South Georgia
60% by mass of the diet of grey-headed albatrosses in 1986 and 1994 respectively. We determined the ... otoliths (54 representing 9 taxa and 57 representing 17 taxa in black-browed and grey-headed albatross ... samples respectively). For black-browed albatrosses in 1986 the main fish prey was Patagonotothen guntheri ... (40% estimated biomass), whereas in 1994 Pseudochaenichthys georgianus was the main fish prey (57% of ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-96/11 : Autor(es): Reid, K., Prince, P.A., Croxall, J.P.
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CCAMLR ecosystem monitoring and management: future work
Abstract: Harvesting of marine living resources in the Southern Ocean is managed by the ... in the conservation objectives. In the late 1980s, the precautionary approach of CCAMLR was ... developed, incorporating principles of how to use scientific evidence in the decision making process. Even ... ), it takes account of the needs of predators in the assessment of catch limits. The success of this ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/P05 : Autor(es): A.J. Constable
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Network characterisation of the food-web of the Ross Sea, Antarctica
toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the region. We evaluate: (1) biomass and flow of organic matter by ... , i.e. the whole Ross Sea shelf and slope area, averaged over a typical year, and in 35 trophic groups ... pronounced peak in biomass in the lower-middle part of the food-web, a result of high biomass of ... the total living biomass in the Ross Sea (bacteria excluded). The six groups with the highest ‘indices ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-12/53 : Autor(es): M.H. Pinkerton and J.M. Bradford-Grieve (New Zealand)
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Infectious diseases of Antarctic penguins: current status and future threats
tourists in the future. Three main areas are likely to be impacted by this increase in use and by ... occurred. The majority of these events have occurred since the year 2000 in regions that will likely be ... valuable as indicators of the status of marine ecosystem health and are an indicator-species used in the ... on these birds. Long-term disease studies would therefore be useful as an adjunct to aid in ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/53 : Autor(es): W.W. Grimaldi, P.J. Seddon, P.O.B. Lyver, S. Nakagawa and D.M. Tompkins (New Zealand)
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A balanced trophic model of the ecosystem of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, for investigating effects of the Antarctic toothfish fishery
variability in primary production. In the relative absence of krill, Antarctic silverfish (Pleuragramma ... primary production and the larger predators, though the role of cepahlopods in the system is poorly known ... characteristics are not well known. Toothed and baleen whales visit the Ross Sea in summer in relatively large ... in summer, and some may stay in the region year-round. The trophic model was balanced by adjusting ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-07/18 : Autor(es): M.H. Pinkerton, S.M. Hanchet and J. Bradford-Grieve (New Zealand)
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Acquiring a ‘base datum of normality’ for a marine ecosystem: the Ross Sea, Antarctica
processes in a system where both top-down and bottom-up forcing are still intact. Elsewhere in Earth’s ... researchers who currently investigate open-ocean systems. Herein, the importance of top-down forcing in ... pelagic and neritic marine ecosystems is reviewed with concrete evidence given for its existence in the ... current functioning of the RSShelfE. In spite of this unique evidence for the Antarctic region, much ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-04/20 : Autor(es): D. Ainley (USA)
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Interannual hydroclimate fluctuations of the Atlantic part of the Antarctic since 1970 to 2000
Abstract: Late in 1999 and early in 2000 there was observed a significant shifting of Falkland ... . In this connection, retrospective hydrometeorological data on the areas of South-West Atlantic ... indices showed that since 1996 atmospheric process unusual development had been observed. In 1996-1998 an ... could be changed which, in turn, provoked variations in hydrodynamic conditions of krill habitat within ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/35 : Autor(es): G. Chernega, I. Polischuk and P. Chernyshkov (Russia)
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PROTECTING THE SOUTHERN OCEAN WHALE SANCTUARY: DEVELOPMENT OF A MANAGEMENT PLAN
Abstract: ASOC submitted a paper to the June meeting of the International Whaling Commission in ... Santiago outlining the reasons why the IWC, in concert with CCAMLR and other appropriate international ... as an Opening Statement in accordance with IWC rules. Following the IWC meeting, ASOC prepared an ... updated version of the paper, which is now in circulation to all of the governments participating in the ...
Meeting Document : CCAMLR-XXVII/BG/29 : Autor(es): Submitted by ASOC
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METHODOLOGY OF EVALUATING THE AQUATIC LIFE RESOURCES
Abstract: ic life is developed in accordance with the rules of metrology, mathematical statistics ... water life was investigated through biocenotic conditionality in the areas of their equal probability in ... concentrations. The traditional method of squares in evaluating the stocks of water life was modernized with the ... specific concentration. Allocation of borders in the areas of probably equal concentrations of aquatic life ...
Meeting Document : WG-SAM-08/P02 : Autor(es): L.A. Kovalchuk (Ukraine)
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Surface exchange between the Weddell and Scotia Seas
surface drifters released in January 2012 in the northwestern Weddell Sea. The drifters detail Lagrangian ... transport pathways between the eastern Antarctic Peninsula and sites of elevated chlorophyll in the Scotia ... Sea. ACC frontal currents, in particular the Southern ACC Front, act as dynamical transport barriers ... Weddell source waters in the Scotia Sea. Interannual fluctuations in surface chlorophyll in the south ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-14/P03 : Autor(es): A.F. Thompson and M.K. Youngs