Project information
Project aim
Understanding the structure and function of food webs is essential to interpreting and understanding the responses of Antarctic coastal ecosystems to human disturbance. Coastal marine benthic communities in Antarctica may act as useful warning sentinels by providing evidence of the effects of local human activities and of the effects of global climate change and ultimately lead to better management of human imapacts and protection of the Antarctic environment.
Related publications
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Contamination of the marine environment by Antarctic research stations: Monitoring marine pollution at Casey station from 1997 to 2015 PLoS ONE, 2023
(Ref: 16896)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
The contamination of the marine environment surrounding coastal Antarctic research stations remains insufficiently understood in terms of its extent, persistence, and characteristics. We investigated the presence of contaminants in marine sediments near Casey Station…
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Construction of a trophically complex near-shore Antarctic food web model using the Conservative Normal framework with
structural coexistence Journal of Marine Systems, 2015
(Ref: 15443)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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An Antarctic Research Station as a Source of Brominated and
Perfluorinated Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Local
Environment Environmental Science and Technology, 2015
(Ref: 15441)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Light-driven tipping points in polar ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 2013
(Ref: 15188)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Monitoring Coastal Ecosystems in Antarctica. Australian Marine Sciences Association and New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Joint Conference (AMSA-NZMSS), Hobart, Tasmania, 1-5 July 2012, 2012
(Ref: 14946)
Authors:Category 3: Abstract
The Australian Antarctic Division has developed a long term coastal monitoring program at Australia’s Casey Station in East Antarctica. This evolved out of a series of field programs beginning in the mid-1990s.