Publications database

Impact of experimental light regimes on Antarctic fast-ice algal communities observed by combining ice coring and imaging spectroscopy Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2025 (Ref: 17377)

Authors:

Cimoli E.Kennedy F.Meiners K.Lund-Hansen L.C.Malenovský Z.Sorrell K.Martin A.Lucieer V.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Antarctic landfast sea ice is an integral component of coastal and nearshore ecosystems, providing bottom-ice habitats that harbour some of the most productive marine microalgal communities on Earth. Ice algal biomass is driven by the spatio-temporal dynamics of snow and sea-ice covers…

Population dynamics and spatial structure of the grey rockcod (Lepidonotothen squamifrons) in the vicinity of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands. PLOS ONE, 2024 (Ref: 17148)

Authors:

Maschette D.Birch P.Farmer B.M.Woodcock E.Péron C.Cramer B.Gardner C.Welsford D.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The grey rockcod, Lepidonotothen squamifrons is an important prey species for seals, penguins and Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) in the Southern Ocean. Across the Kerguelen Plateau, the species was fished to commercial extinction (ca. 152 000 tonnes between 1971 and 1978)…

Draft Advisory Committee Work Programme 2023 - 2025 The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) 7th Meeting of the Parties, Virtual meeting, 9 - 13 May 2022, prepared by the Advisory Committee (only AAD authors listed), 2022 (Ref: 16989)

Authors:

Double M.Barrington J.Grey E.

Category 2: International meeting papers

The Advisory Committee Work Programme for the 2023 - 2025 triennium was drafted by the Advisory Committee and its Working Groups during its Twelfth Meeting (AC12), held as a virtual meeting, between 31 August and 2 September 2021.

Report on Progress with the Implementation of the Agreement 2018 - 2021 The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) 7th Meeting of the Parties, Virtual meeting, 9 - 13 May 2022, prepared by the Advisory Committee and Secretariat (only AAD authors listed), 2022 (Ref: 16988)

Authors:

Double M.Barrington J.Grey E.

Category 2: International meeting papers

This report has been prepared under Article IX(6)(d) of the Agreement and includes a collation of information provided under Article X(j) by Parties through the Secretariat under Article VII(1)(c) and Article VIII(10).

Estimates of abundance of Dissostichus eleginoides and Champsocephalus gunnari from the random stratified trawl survey in the waters surrounding Heard Island in Division 58.5.2 for 2019 CCAMLR Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment, Hobart, Australia 7-18 October 2019, 2019 (Ref: 16967)

Authors:

Nowara G.B.Lamb T.D.Ziegler P.

Category 2: International meeting papers

During late March to early April 2019, the annual random stratified trawl survey (RSTS) around Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) was conducted in CCAMLR Division 58.5.2, with the completion of 150 stations. The survey was conducted on the FV Atlas Cove.

Estimates of abundance of Dissostichus eleginoides and Champsocephalus gunnari from the random stratified trawl survey in the waters surrounding Heard Island in Division 58.5.2 for 2020 CCAMLR Thirty-ninth Meeting of the Scientific Committee, Online, 22 - 26 October 2020, Delegation of Australia (only AAD authors listed), 2020 (Ref: 16958)

Authors:

Ziegler P.

Category 2: International meeting papers

During late March to mid-April 2020, the annual random stratified trawl survey (RSTS) around Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) was conducted in CCAMLR Division 58.5.2, with the completion of 151 stations. The survey was conducted on the FV Atlas Cove.

WG-FSA-2021/19 Estimates of abundance of Dissostichus eleginoides and Champsocephalus gunnari from the random stratified trawl survey in the waters surrounding Heard Island in Division 58.5.2 for 2021 CCAMLR Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment - Virtual Meeting, 13 to 20 September 2021, 2021 (Ref: 16740)

Authors:

Miller C.E.Ziegler P.E.Lamb T.

Category 2: International meeting papers

During late March to mid-April 2021, the annual random stratified trawl survey (RSTS) around Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) was conducted in CCAMLR Division 58.5.2, with the completion of 163 stations. The survey was conducted for the first time on the Cape Arkona.

Exploring age and growth dynamics of a historically overfished Sub-Antarctic fish species: The grey rockcod (Lepidonotothen squamifrons) in the vicinity of Heard Island and McDonald Island. CCAMLR Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment WG-FSA-15/51, 2015 (Ref: 15835)

Authors:

Maschette D.Welsford D.C.Gardner C.

Category 2: International meeting papers

An estimate of the population sizes of Black-browed (Thalassarche melanophrys) and Grey-headed (T. chrysostoma) Albatrosses breeding in the Diego Ramírez Archipelago, Chile Emu, 2007 (Ref: 13306)

Authors:

Robertson G.Moreno C.A.Lawton K.Arata J.Valencia J.Kirkwood R.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The Diego Ramírez Archipelago, Chile, is the southernmost albatross breeding ground in the world and holds … globally important numbers of Black-browed (Thalassarche melanophrys) and Grey-headed (T. chrysostoma) Albatrosses. A census in the Diego Ramírez Archipelago has been attempted only once…

Texture-based classification of sub-Antarctic vegetation communities on Heard Island International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 2010 (Ref: 14046)

Authors:

Murray H.Lucieer A.Williams R.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

This study was the first to use high-resolution IKONOS imagery to classify vegetation communities on … sub-Antarctic Heard Island. We focused on the use of texture measures, in addition to standard … multispectral information, to improve the classification of sub-Antarctic vegetation communities.

Foraging areas of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses breeding on Macquarie Island in relation to marine protected areas. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater ecosystems, 2006 (Ref: 12691)

Authors:

Terauds A.Gales R.Baker G.B.Alderman R.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

1. Although marine protected areas (MPAs) are often established to protect threatened top-order … predators, there is a paucity of data that can be used to evaluate their efficacy in achieving this … purpose. 2.

Trends in numbers and survival of Black-browed (Thalassarche melanophrys) and Grey-headed (T. chrysostoma) Albatrosses breeding on Macquarie Island. Emu, 2006 (Ref: 12689)

Authors:

Terauds A.Gales R.Alderman R.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The influence of animal mobility on the assumption of uniform distances in aerial line-transect surveys Wildlife Research, 2008 (Ref: 13474)

Authors:

Fewster R.M.Southwell C.Borchers D.L.Buckland S.T.Pople A.R.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Line-transect distance sampling is a widely used method for estimating animal density from aerial surveys. Analysis of line-transect distance data usually relies on a requirement that the statistical distribution of distances of animal … groups from the transect line is uniform.

Black and white or shades of grey? Detectability of Adélie penguins during shipboard surveys in the Antarctic pack-ice Journal of Applied Ecology, 2009 (Ref: 13601)

Authors:

Southwell C.Low M.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

1. Estimates of penguin abundance are important for developing marine ecosystem models and … assessing potential competition between penguins and fisheries operations. 2. Most shipboard surveys of penguins use strip transect (ST) or conventional distance sampling … (CDS)…

Status and distribution of wandering, black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses breeding at South Georgia. Polar Biology, 2006 (Ref: 12729)

Authors:

Poncet S.Robertson G.Phillips R.A.Lawton K.Phalan B.Trathan P.N.Croxall J.P.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Long-term studies at Bird Island, South … Georgia, show that numbers of wandering, black-browed … and grey-headed albatrosses have been decreasing … since the late 1970s. To determine the status of the total … South Georgia population…

Status and distribution of wandering, black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses breeding at South Georgia. Polar Biology, 2006 (Ref: 12294)

Authors:

Poncet S.Robertson G.Phillips R.A.Lawton K.Phalan B.Trathan P.N.Croxall J.P.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Long-term studies at Bird Island, South … Georgia, show that numbers of wandering, black-browed … and grey-headed albatrosses have been decreasing … since the late 1970s. To determine the status of the total … South Georgia population…

Diet of grey-headed albatrosses at the Diego Ramírez Islands,Chile: ecological implications Antarctic Science, 2004 (Ref: 11537)

Authors:

Arata J.Robertson G.Valencia J.Xavier J.C.Moreno C.A.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The diet of grey-headed albatrosses at Diego Ramírez was analysed and compared to that of the … sympatric black-browed albatross. Diet composition was inferred from an analysis of prey hard parts present … in 103 chick regurgitates obtained during breeding seasons 2000, 2001 and 2002.

Estimating the breeding populations of black-browed, grey-headed and wandering albatrosses at South Georgia using boat-based digital photography. Third International Albatross and Petrel Conference, 23-27 August 2004, Montevideo, Uruguay., 2004 (Ref: 11664)

Authors:

Poncet S.Robertson G.Lawton K.Croxall J.P.Phillips R.Phalan B.

Category 3: Verbal presentation

South Georgia (540S; 380W) lies 350 km south of the Polar Front in the south-west Atlantic Ocean. It is a key global location for albatrosses: at the last all-island census in 1986, it was estimated that approximately 92,500 pairs of grey-headed albatrosses (most important global site), 101…

The status of black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses breeding in Chile. Third International Albatross and Petrel Conference, 23-27 August 2004, Montevideo, Uruguay., 2004 (Ref: 11663)

Authors:

Valencia J.Robertson G.Lawton K.Arata J.Kirkwood R.

Category 3: Verbal presentation

Black-browed and grey-headed albatrosses breed at four known locations in Chile: Islas Diego de Almagro, Islote Evangelistas, Islas Ildefonso and Islas Diego Ramirez.

The effectiveness of integrated weight (fast sinking) longlines in reducing mortality of white-chinned petrels and sooty shearwaters in the New Zealand Ling longline fishery. Third International Albatross and Petrel Conference, 23-27 August 2004, Montevideo, Uruguay., 2004 (Ref: 11661)

Authors:

Robertson G.McNeill M.Smith N.Wienecke B.

Category 3: Verbal presentation

The most difficult seabirds in the world to deter from baited hooks are white-chinned petrels, grey petrels and the shearwaters. A fundamental principle of seabird-friendly longlines is that they commence sinking immediately upon deployment and sink fast. Longlines with integrated weight…

Temporal patterns of protozooplankton abundance and their food in Ellis Fjord, Princess Elizabeth land, Eastern Antarctica. Esturarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 1997 (Ref: 7596)

Authors:

Grey J.Laybourn-Parry J.Leakey R.J.G.McMinn A.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Ten facts: Grey-headed albatross Australian Antarctic Division internet website (www.aad.gov.au), 2000 (Ref: 10848)

Authors:

Woehler E.Copson G.Clippingdale M.

Category 4: Popular articles

Foraging ecology of diego ramirez black browed and grey headed albatrosses VIII SCAR International Biology Symposium, August 27-September 1, 2001, The Netherlands, 2001 (Ref: 10543)

Authors:

Valencia J.Robertson G.Wienecke B.

Category 3: Conference paper