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1. Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA) No. XYX, Edmonson Point, Wood Bay, Victoria Land, Ross Sea

   Abstract:  Edmonson Point (74°20' S, 165°08' E) is located in Wood Bay, Victoria Land ... -free areas in Northern Victoria Land and was first identified in the 1980s as a site that could merit ... special protection. The site is representative in the sense that a wide range of freshwater habitats is ... present, and is considered excellent for studies on biogeochemical processes in lakes; vegetation is ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/7 : Autor(es): Delegation of Italy

2. A krill–predator–fishery model for evaluating candidate management procedures

   Statistical Area 48 amongst smaller spatial units in order to minimize the localized depletion of krill in ... necessary to evaluate these procedures in terms of their likely effects on krill and predator populations as ... well as fishery performance. This evaluation must be conducted in the context of considerable ... running the model in S-Plus and illustrate its use. Finally, we conclude that although our model ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/13 : Autor(es): G.M. Watters, J.T. Hinke (USA), K. Reid and S. Hill (United Kingdom)

3. An interlaboratory comparison of ages estimated for Dissostichus eleginoides from the Argentine Sea, southwest Atlantic Ocean

   Abstract:  To examine consistency among laboratories in age estimation of Patagonian toothfish and ... 124 fishes caughts in Argentine Sea (South West Atlantic) Ages were estimated by readers from National ... a clearer section. More hyaline bands were visible in the NIWA preparations, particularly near the ... otoliths could not be classified as easy to read, the clarity of their zones is quite similar in the South ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-04/45 : Autor(es): M.C. Cassia (Argentina), P.L. Horn (New Zealand) and J.R. Ashford (USA)

4. An ecosystem-based approach to management: using individual behaviour to predict the indirect effects of Antarctic krill fisheries on penguin foraging

   Abstract:  1. Changes in species’ abundance and distributions caused by human disturbances can ... have indirect effects on other species in a community. Although ecosystem approaches to management are ... conditions on these interactions. In this study, we extended a behavioural model used previously to ... penguin foraging success and behaviour in adjacent breeding sites. 3. Increased fishing pressure offshore ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/34 : Autor(es): S.H. Alonzo, P.V. Switzer and M. Mangel (USA)

5. Defining predator foraging ranges, illustrated using Adélie penguin foraging tracks from Mawson coast

   taking into account interannual variation in foraging locations? This paper considers the issues to be ... addressed in answering that question. The proposed method for defining foraging ranges is based on an ... effort and this is used to delineate a feeding ground for Adélie penguins on the Mawson coast in eastern ... these foraging ranges for the purposes of small-scale management units may need to be examined in three ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/41 : Autor(es): I.R. Ball, A.J. Constable, J. Clarke and L. Emmerson (Australia)

6. Short note: time series of Drake Passage Oscillation Index (DPOI) from 1952 to 1988

   Abstract:  Naganobu et al. (1999) had assessed variability in krill recruitment and density with ... differences across the Drake Passage, sea ice cover and chlorophyll-a in the Antarctic Peninsula area during ... westerlies were especially regarded as a key environmental index. Fluctuations in the westerlies across the ... variability. High DPOI periods, not less than 16 hPa, were mostly observed in the period before 1964 and only ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/44 : Autor(es): M. Naganobu and K. Kutsuwada (Japan)

7. Predation on fish by the southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina, at King George Island, South Shetland Islands, as reflected by stomach lavage

   , were stomach lavaged at King George Island in order to analyse their diet. The two major prey types ... were cephalopods and fish which ocurred respectively in 98,1% and 14% of stomachs containing prey ... nicholsi which constituted in number 69% of the otoliths found. This species was followed by the ... nototheniid Pleuragramma antarcticum which represented 11,7% in number and 31,3% in frequency of occurrence ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/58 : Autor(es): G.A. Daneri and A.R. Carlini (Argentina)

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

   methods for using these data. Such methods must, in particular, accommodate the difficulties caused by ... models (GAMs) that are commonly and successfully used in modelling species distributions, but has ... particular advantages in its analytical speed and the ease of transfer of analysis results to other ... dominant environmental drivers of variation in species composition. We use data from 226 species from six ...

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

9. Population demography of Antarctic fur seals: the costs of reproduction and implications for life-histories

   Abstract:  1. This study examined the costs of reproduction in terms of future survival and ... reproduction in female Antarctic fur seals from Bird Island, South Georgia. It used mark-recapture data from 11 ... . 2. Population age structures were used, in conjuction with the measured age-specific survival rates ... result of pregnancy which accounted for 40–50% of adult female mortality. This effect was greatest in the ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-95/26 : Autor(es): Reid, K., Croxall, J.P., Lunn, N.J., Boyd, I.L.

10. Developing a Ross Sea region medium-term data collection plan

    Abstract:  Data are collected for use in scientific research, the results of which are used to ... , prevention of changes or minimisation of the risk of changes in the marine ecosystem which are not ... of Antarctic marine living resources. Based on these goals and previous experience in the fishery ... , proposed medium term research objectives for the Ross Sea fishery for the next 5–7 years were developed in ...

    Meeting Document : WG-FSA-10/32 : Autor(es): S. Mormede and S. Hanchet (New Zealand)

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