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1. Developing a carbon-budget trophic model of the Ross Sea, Antarctica: work in progress

   Abstract:  We report on the development of a carbon-budget trophic-model of the Ross Sea. We ... provisionally defined the food web of the Ross Sea as having the following functional compartments: birds, seals ... heterotrophs, water column zooplankton (ciliates, heterotrophic flagellates, mesozooplankton), three groups of ... column, ice, and benthic). The simple trophic model requires well over a hundred parameters, each of ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-05/18 : Автор(ы): M. Pinkerton, S. Hanchet, J. Bradford-Grieve and P. Wilson (New Zealand)

2. Further development and progress towards evaluation of an Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) stock model for the Ross Sea

   Abstract:  This report outlines the development of a Bayesian sex and age structured population ... model for the assessment of Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni) in the Ross Sea (Subareas 88.1 ... and 88.2), and initial progress towards evaluation of spatially explicit models. Three model scenarios ... either two or three discrete areas, with migrations of fish between areas. The 2-area model appeared to ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-SAM-05/12 : Автор(ы): A. Dunn, D.J. Gilbert and S.M. Hanchet (New Zealand)

3. Population, breeding, diet and conservation of Crozet shag Phalacrocorax [atriceps] melanogenis at Marion Island, 1994/95 to 2002/03

   Abstract:  The number of Crozet shags or cormorants Phalacrocorax [atriceps] melanogenis breeding ... mean number of pairs at colonies also decreased and was significantly related to the overall number of ... birds breeding in any given season. The decreases coincided with a period of warming and reduced ... precipitation at Marion Island and with a decrease in the number of gentoo penguins Pygoscelis papua breeding ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-03/17 : Автор(ы): R.J.M. Crawford, J. Cooper, B.M. Dyer, A.C. Wolfaardt, D. Tshingana, K. Spencer, S.L. Petersen, J.L. Nel, D.G. Keith, C.L. Holness, B. Hanise, M.D. Greyling and M. du Toit (South Africa)

4. Do fish prey size affect the foraging patterns and breeding output of the Antarctic shag Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis?

   Abstract:  Concurrent information on diet composition, foraging patterns and breeding output of ... , followed by octopods and gastropods. Between colonies there were marked differences in the size of the fish ... number of specimens of the smallest fish species, Harpagifer antarcticus, consumed at that colony ... . Differences in the composition of the diet might be related to different foraging areas used by the shags ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/4 : Автор(ы): R. Casaux and A. Baroni (Argentina)

5. Estimating food consumption of marine predators: Antarctic fur seals and macaroni penguins

   Abstract:  1. Estimating food consumption is central to defining the ecological role of marine ... , growth, diet, life history and the activity budgets of marine predators to estimate population energy ... requirements and food consumption. 2. Two species of marine predators (Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella ... examples to test the algorithm. A sensitivity analysis showed that estimates of prey consumed were most ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-02/23 : Автор(ы): I.L. Boyd (United Kingdom)

6. Report of the WG-FSA Intersessional Subgroup on Sampling Catches from Longlines

   ; 2) the allocation of observer effort within longline haul and between hauls; and 3) the allocation ... of observer effort directed toward fishery target species versus ecological interactions. Both ... activity by sampling every day of hauling. Both methods essentially follow a multi-stage cluster sampling ... fish/day, to sampling a set length of each line or number of hours of each day. The principal advantage ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-02/52

7. Diet and foraging effort of Adélie penguins in relation to pack-ice conditions in the southern Ross Sea

   Abstract:  We investigated the diet and aspects of foraging effort among Adélie Penguins ... , Bird and Crozier-- during the chick provisioning period of three austral summers, 1994-95, 1995-96 and ... 1996-97. During the study period, pack-ice cover differed in waters offshore of these colonies, by ... present. With respect to krill, which composed the remainder of diet, juvenile Euphausia crystallorophias ...

   Meeting Document : WG-EMM-98/15 : Автор(ы): D.G. Ainley (USA), P.R. Wilson, K.J. Barton (New Zealand), G. Ballard, N. Nur (USA) and B. Karl (New Zealand)

8. Terra Nova Bay: hot spot in marine and terrestrial biodiversity, knowledge and functioning of the ecosystem

   Abstract:  The Terra Nova Bay area is particularly valuable for science due to the presence of ... . From an oceanographic perspective, the area is characterised by the occurrence of the Terra Nova Bay ... polynya, a crucial region for the formation of the High Salinity Shelf Water (HSSW), formed by the ... salination of the Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW), that penetrates onto the continental shelf of the Ross Sea ...

   Meeting Document : WS-MPA-11/14 : Автор(ы): S. Torcini, M. Vacchi, S. Aliani, G. Bavestrello, A. Bergamasco, G. Budillon, B. Calcinai, G. Catalano, R. Cattaneo-Vietti, C. Cerrano, M. Chiantore, S. Corsolini, R. Bargagli, A. Dell’Anno, G. di Prisco, G. Fusco, S. Focardi, L. Gugliemo, G. Lauriano, P. Luporini, O. Mangoni, S. Olmastroni, F. Pezzo, E. Pisano, L. Ghigliotti, P. Povero, S. Puce, A. Pusceddu, E. Rusciano, M. Saggiomo, V. Saggiomo, M.C. Gambi, S. Schiaparelli, G. Spezie, C. Verde, P. Del Negro (Italy)

9. Revised proposal for a CCAMLR sponsored research survey to monitor abundance of pre-recruit Antarctic toothfish in the southern Ross Sea

   survey was presented to the 2011 meeting of WG-SAM. In this paper we provide an update of the preliminary ... , which has been submitted as a paper to the Scientific Committee. We consider here the objectives of the ... Abstract:  At its 2010 meeting, the Scientific Committee agreed that a time series of recruitments ... proposal by taking into account the comments of WG-SAM. It provides the scientific rationale and background ...

   Meeting Document : WG-FSA-11/47 : Автор(ы): S.M. Hanchet, S. Mormede, S.J. Parker and A. Dunn (New Zealand)

10. SOUTHERN OCEAN SENTINEL: REPORT OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP IN 2009

    held at the CCAMLR Headquarters in Hobart in April 2009. The conclusions of that workshop are provided ... to WG-EMM for consideration along with an overview, the program and abstracts of the keynote ... presentations. A report of the workshop will be submitted to the Scientific Committee for its considerations in ... October 2009, including discussion on the following questions: A key conclusion of the workshop was that ...

    Meeting Document : WG-EMM-09/37 : Автор(ы): A.J. Constable

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