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Extreme capital breeding for giants: Effects of body size on humpback whale energy expenditure and fasting endurance Ecological Modelling, 2024 (Ref: 17212)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Baleen whales are extreme capital breeders, capable of fasting for more than half a year while migrating thousands of kilometres and nursing rapidly growing offspring that quadruple in body size over the same period. To understand this energetic conundrum…

Species on the move in Antarctic terrestrial communities Species on the Move Conference, Hobart, Australia 9-12 February 2016, 2016 (Ref: 15848)
Category 3: Verbal presentation

Antarctica has experienced major changes in temperature, wind speed and stratospheric ozone levels over the last 50 years. Whilst West Antarctica and the peninsula have shown rapid warming and consequent ecosystem change, East Antarctica appeared to be little impacted by climate warming…

Rapid collapse of a sub-Antarctic alpine ecosystem: the role of climate and pathogens Journal of Applied Ecology, 2015 (Ref: 15510)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

1.Ecosystem change is predicted to become more prevalent with climate change. Widespread dieback of cushion plants and bryophytes in alpine fellfield on Macquarie Island may represent such change. Loss of the keystone endemic cushion plant, Azorella macquariensis…

Assessing the toxicity of dispersed and weathered fuels on Antarctic marine invertebrates Strategic Science in Antarctica Conference, Hobart, Australia, 24-26 June 2013, 2013 (Ref: 15384)
Category 3: Poster

Fuel spills in Antarctic waters are increasingly likely with the rise in shipping in the region related to tourism and research activities, both of which require and transport large quantities of fuel. While fuel dispersants are not currently used in the management of fuel spills in Antarctica…

Changing ENSO influences on the QBO Stratosphere-troposphere Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) 2014 General Assembly, Queenstown, New Zealand, 12-17 January 2014, 2014 (Ref: 15298)
Category 3: Poster

It has been shown by Taguchi (2010) that QBO periods were longer and … amplitudes larger during periods of La Niña than during periods of El Niño during … the period 1953-2008. Garfinkel and Hartmann (2007)…

Phytoremediation of hydrocarbon contaminants in sub-Antarctic soils 13th Australasian Society for Ecotoxicology (ASE) Conference, Adelaide, SA, 20-23 September 2009, 2009 (Ref: 15325)
Category 3: Verbal presentation

In response to several fuel spills on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island associated with research station operations, the Australian Antarctic Division has initiated a 5-10 year plan to remediate the island’s contaminated sites using low cost in-situ techniques.

Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) mortalities and human interactions in Australia, 1950-2006 Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 2008 (Ref: 13602)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

A total of 44 records of southern right whale mortalities and non-fatal anthropogenic interactions have been documented in Australia by … museums, wildlife agencies and researchers since 1950. Sixteen of the events involved whales that apparently survived.

Vessel collisions with small cetaceans worldwide and with large whales in the Southern Hemisphere; building a standardized database 2006 IWC-Scientific Committee SC/58/BC6, 2006 (Ref: 13535)
Category 2: International meeting papers

We compiled and reviewed 248 cases of reported vessel collisions with small cetaceans worldwide and with large … cetaceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Difficulties were encountered with the comparison of highly variable data in … terms of quality (evidence), sources…

Vessel collisions with small cetaceans worldwide and with large whales in the Southern Hemisphere, an initial assessment Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals, 2007 (Ref: 13319)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

ABSTRACT: Collisions with vessels are a well-documented conservation problem for some populations of large whales (LW) in the Northern Hemisphere. Less attention has been given to incidents in the Southern Hemisphere or to small cetaceans … (SC) worldwide…

The role of sanctuaries in the modern whaling debate Australasian Wildlife Management Society Conference, Hobart, Australia 21-24 November 2005, 2005 (Ref: 12953)
Category 3: Verbal presentation

In their Policy Forum review “Do the largest protected areas conserve whales or whalers?” (Science, 28 Jan 2006, p.525), Gerber and co-authors criticised the scientific basis of the International Whaling Commissions’ (IWC)…

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