Project information
Project aim
This study will evaluate the potential effects of trawling on benthic habitats of the continental shelf of Eastern Antarctica and on the Kerguelen Plateau near to Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean. It will include assessments of (i) the relationship between the abundances of benthic invertebrates and the geomorphology and oceanography of the region, (ii) spatial distributions and potential uniqueness of different habitat types, (iii) conservation status of those habitats, and (iv) the vulnerability of these habitats to disruption by commercial trawling activities.
Related publications
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A proposal for compiling information, assessments and science that underpin established CCAMLR Marine Protected Areas and provide the basis for ongoing management, science and review: an MPA Report. , 2012
(Ref: 14862)
Category 2: International meeting papers
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The Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve and Conservation Zone – A model for Southern Ocean Marine Reserves? The Kerguelen Plateau: Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries., 2011
(Ref: 14873)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Developing a precautionary, ecosystem approach to managing fisheries and other marine activities at Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the Indian Sector of the Southern Ocean. The Kerguelen Plateau: Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries, 2011
(Ref: 14872)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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The Kerguelen Plateau: Marine Ecosystem and Fisheries., 2011
(Ref: 14871)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
The Kerguelen Plateau, located in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean, is the second largest submarine plateau in the world. Despite the remoteness of the islands that emerge from the Plateau…
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On the application of in situ monazite chemical geochronology to constraining P–T–t histories in high-temperature (>850 °C) polymetamorphic granulites from
Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. Journal of the Geological Society, 2007
(Ref: 14711)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature