Résultats de la recherche
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Estimating the abundance of pack-ice seals off east Antarctica
Abstract: A survey was undertaken to provide estimates of the abundance of crabeater, Ross and ... helicopters to estimate the density of seals hauled out on the ice in survey strips. The probability of ... -linked dive recorders were deployed on a sample of seals to estimate the probability of seals being ... hauled out on the ice at any time of day. Due to non-random placement of survey transects, model-based ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/23 : Auteur(s): C. Southwell (Australia), D. Borchers, C. Paxton (United Kingdom), B. de la Mare (Canada), P. Boveng (USA), A.S. Blix and E.S. Nordoy (Norway)
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Review of CCAMLR activities on monitoring marine debris in the Convention Area
Abstract: The current status of national surveys on monitoring of marine debris and their impact ... on marine mammals and seabirds in the Convention Area has been reviewed. The CCAMLR Marine Debris ... Database contains data from 11 sites, all within the Area 48 of which there are 3 sites that have data form ... , reached a peak in the period 1994–1996 at Bird Island and Signy Island has declined thereafter. The level ...
Meeting Document : SC-CAMLR-XXII/BG/25 : Auteur(s): Secretariat
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Changes observed in krill length frequency distribution during repeated sampling on the South Georgia shelf in 2000 January–February
on 22 February and 3 February correspondingly. The comparative analysis revealed the strong ... difference in krill inhabiting Northwest and Northeast South Georgian waters. According to the data available ... the difference do not disappear in time, instead certain increase of krill length was observed in both ... parts. The data analyzed confirm that krill on the Northern South Georgian shelf has different origin ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-01/40 : Auteur(s): V.A. Sushin and F.F. Litvinov (Russia)
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Distribution of krill as a fraction of Antarctic zooplankton within the South Sandwich Islands area in summer 2000
Abstract: The paper covers the-results of an acoustic estimation of distribution for krill and ... non-krill zooplankton within the area of South Sandwich Islands that has been obtained with multy ... -frequencies algorithms according to the data on survey by Russian vessel ATLANTIDA under CCAMLR Survey-2000 ... compared. It has been showed that within the field locations occupied by waters of the Weddell Sea and ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-00/50 : Auteur(s): S.M. Kasatkina and A.P. Malyshko (Russia)
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Designing Marine Protected Area networks: insights from the CHARM3 project
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 ... shows this approach is sensitive to sample size and the type of species richness estimator. Thus, there ... targets are objective and scientifically defensible. The second analysis combines the Marxan and MinPatch ...
Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/22 : Auteur(s): R.J. Smith and K. Metcalfe (UK)
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PROPOSED APPROACH FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF IMPORTANT MARINE AREAS FOR CONSERVATION: USING ‘MARXAN’ SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT SYSTEMATIC CONSERVATION PLANNING
the pelagic environment, using Subarea 48.2 (South Orkney Islands) as a pilot study area. The aim of ... the worked example is not to identify areas for protection or management at this stage, but rather to ... test the utility of this methodology, and to demonstrate the types of data and the range of decisions ... ; Game & Grantham, 2008) is used to objectively determine the possible contribution of individual ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-08/49 : Auteur(s): S.M. Grant, J. Tratalos and P.N. Trathan (United Kingdom)
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FISHING ACTIVITY AND SEABIRD-VESSEL ATTENDANCE NEAR THE NORTHERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA
Abstract: We conducted a survey to investigate the factors influencing the number of seabirds ... attending a research vessel during scientific trawling activities near the northern Antarctic Peninsula. Our ... fishing activity. Counts of seabirds attending the vessel were made during non-fishing periods, net ... seabird attendance. Three species, the Black-browed Albatross Thalassarche melanophrys, Cape Petrel ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/11 : Auteur(s): Jarrod A. Santora and Kimberly S. Dietrich (USA) and Darci Lombard (Canada)
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CLASSIFICATION GUIDE FOR POTENTIALLY VULNERABLE INVERTEBRATE TAXA IN THE ROSS SEA LONG-LINE FISHERY
Abstract: Conservation Measure 22-06, in the absence of site-specific or other conservation ... to be taken when evidence of a Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VME) is encountered in the course of ... organisms to the appropriate taxonomic grouping has not been a standard procedure, and no identification ... guide specific to both indicative VME taxa and Antarctic species has been developed. The objective of ...
Meeting Document : WG-FSA-08/19 : Auteur(s): S. Parker, D. Tracey, E. Mackay, S. Mills, P. Marriott, O. Anderson, K. Schnabel, D. Bowden and M. Kelly (New Zealand)
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Diet and prey consumption of Antarctic petrels Thalassoica antarctica at Svarthamaren, Dronning Maud Land and at sea outside the colony
Abstract: The diet of the Antarctic petrel Thalassoica antarctica was studied during two years at ... Svarthamaren, an inland colony situated in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica and in the pack-ice outside ... Svarthamaren. The analyses showed that the most important food (wet weight) at Svarthamaren was Crustaceans (68 ... %), followed by fish (29%) and squid (3%), whereas individuals collected in the pack ice took mostly fish (95 ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-97/58 : Auteur(s): Røv, N., Lorentsen, S., Klages, N.
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Tests for anomalous years in the CCAMLR index series (draft)
Abstract: The properties of a method for detecting anomalous years in CCAMLR index series are ... obtained on the assumption that the series being considered consists of random values from a constant ... normal distribution. This idea is extended to situations (a) where the series values are still normally ... distributed, but contain a linear trend and autocorrelation, and (b) where the series values are from some ...
Meeting Document : WG-EMM-Stats-97/06 : Auteur(s): MacKenzie, D., Manly, B.F.