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Vulnerability of shallow Antarctic invertebrate-dominated ecosystems
Human impacts threaten not only species, but also entire ecosystems. Ecosystems under stress can collapse or transition into different states, potentially reducing biodiversity... -
The Ecology and Biogeography of Heard Island Marine Benthos
Collections of 23 macroinvertebrate taxa associated with Durvillaea antarctica holdfasts and 58 invertebrate taxa associated with artificial substrata collectors are described... -
SRE4 Effects of hydrocarbons on Antarctic Marine Sediment Ecosystems - SRE4_Microbial
Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different... -
Davis Multibeam Survey 2016/17, Antarctica (GA-0357-0360/ AAP 5093/ HI590) –...
Geoscience Australia, the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) conducted a hydrographic and seafloor characterisation survey in nearshore... -
Trophic Ecology of the Antarctic Nearshore Zone
Project Objectives 1) To describe trophic relationships in near shore marine benthic ecosystems of East Antarctica and determine the importance of environmental forces (such as... -
Depth related changes in the composition of marine soft sediment infaunal...
Depth related changes in sediment characteristics and the composition of infaunal invertebrate communities were investigated at two sites in the Windmill Islands around Casey... -
Impacts of trawling on benthic habitats in the subantarctic and high...
Objectives of the project: 1. To develop deep-sea camera technologies that can be easily deployed during fishing operations, to facilitate widespread observations of demersal... -
Photoquadrat survey of hard substratum assemblages around Casey Station:...
A survey of the epibenthic fauna of hard-substrata was made around Casey Station, using a camera mounted on a frame to take photoquadrats. A nested sampling design was used with... -
Impacts of trawling on benthic habitats in the subantarctic and high...
This project aims to assess the vulnerability of and risks to habitats in Australian fisheries in the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)/Australian Fishing Zone (AFZ) of... -
Systematic list of benthic invertebrates identified in the Heard Island and...
This database provides the most comprehensive systematic list of mega-epibenthic assemblages in the Australian Economic Exclusive Zone (AEEZ) of Heard Island and McDonalds... -
Recruitment Tile Motile Fauna data from the antFOCE (Antarctic Free Ocean...
Refer to antFOCE report section 4.5.1 for deployment, sampling and analysis details. https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4127_antFOCE_Project4127 The download file... -
Characterisation of seafloor imagery from the Sabrina Coast continental shelf
A total of 701 still images were analysed from 10 transects on the Sabrina Coast continental shelf. Imagery was collected from the RVIB Nathaniel B Palmer (NBP 14-02, 29 January... -
Environmental data from the antFOCE (Antarctic Free Ocean Carbon Enrichment)...
Metadata record AAS_4127_antFOCE_EnvironmentalData contains seafloor Ambient Light and ambient Seawater Temperature data sets collected at the antFOCE site during the... -
A manipulative field experiment examining the effect of contaminated...
The effect of location and sediment contamination on recruitment of soft-sediment assemblages were examined in field experiment at Casey Station, East Antarctica. Four locations... -
Biological data from the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Davis Sewage Outfall
Untreated, macerated wastewater effluent has been discharged to the sea at Davis Station since 2005, when the old wastewater treatment infrastructure was removed. This...