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Short-tailed shearwaters Puffinus tenuirostris (STSH) make use of a number of physical … oceanographic features on their foraging trips to the Southern Ocean from their breeding colonies in … southeast Australia.
This study examines the molecular-genetic divergence and evolution of Australian aquatic micro-Crustacea Daphnia … and Daphniopsis. The results indicate that species of Daphniopsis are accommodated within the genus Daphnia. Although their phyletic integrity is no longer supported…
A real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method to … quantify the proportion of microorganisms containing … alkane monooxygenase was developed and used to follow … changes in the microbial community in hydrocarboncontaminated … Antarctic soil during a bioremediation field … trial.
Remediation of the Thala Valley waste disposal site near Casey Station, East Antarctica was conducted in the austral summer of … 2003/2004. Biomonitoring of the adjacent marine environment was undertaken using the gammaridean amphipod Paramoera walkeri … as a sentinel species [Stark, J.S.…
Patterns of fishing ground selection were characterised using STATLANT and CCAMLR … fine-scale data. Among the 15 small-scale management units (SSMUs) within Subareas … 48.1, 48.2 and 48.3, including the pelagic SSMUs, only one-third were identified as major … contributors to the total catch.
Models of variability in Adélie penguin foraging trip durations were constructed and fitted … to data collected at Béchervaise Island over a 12-year period when only natural variation … was known to occur. Variability among trips and penguins was greater in the crèche … stage…
Statistical models of variation in Adélie penguin fledgling weight data were used to … examine the power to detect a change in fledgling weights after an impact.
We present Rayleigh lidar observations of polar stratospheric clouds (PSC) from … Davis Station (68.6S, 78.0E), Antarctica, from the 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 austral … winter seasons. The PSC are detected as enhanced backscatter returns at lower … stratospheric heights.
Reliable estimates of diets are vital to monitor impacts of sea lion populations … on their ecosystems and their interactions with fisheries, and to … understand the role of food to animal nutrition and health. Approaches … include using (1) prey remnants in stomach contents, spews and scats; … (2)…