Publications matching your search query
Results 26 to 42 of 42
The collapse of the Larsen A and B and other ice shelves fringing the Antarctic Peninsula … coastline raises questions about the status of ice shelves in other parts of the continent. Are … the large ice shelves along the East Antarctic coast also in danger of permanent collapse…
This study addresses the consequences of repeated … human handling on the survival of an endangered phocid, the southern elephant seal and the implications for wildlife … research. Southern elephant seal pups were repeatedly … handled during the first six weeks of their lives.
Thorium-234 is increasingly used as a tracer of ocean particle flux, primarily as a means to estimate particulate organic carbon … export from the surface ocean. This requires determination of both the 234Th activity distribution (in order to calculate 234Th fluxes)…
On the surface, the severity of the Antarctic environment is sufficient to account for the injury rates that might occur there. However, it is argued that injury occurrence is the outcome of multiple factors. A number of such factors…
The firn air "archive" enables reconstruction of atmospheric composition through the past century when many … significant changes occurred in the global atmosphere.
Bycatch of seabirds during longline fishing operations is listed under Australian legislation as a key threatening process which could endanger 14 species of seabirds. In 1998 a Threat Abatement Plan (TAP) was finalised to manage this threat.
This is a report containing results of desk studies and field investigations at Cape Denison produced for the AHC as a result of a National Estate Grant awarded to the authors in 1995. The Terms of Reference define three main areas of outcomes: 1.
A comprehensive, airborne survey of the Vanderford and Adams glaciers was started in January 1983, continued through the austral summer season 1984/5, and completed in February 1985. Ice thickness and surface-elevation data were collected over some 4500 square kilometres…
Direct exploitation of seabirds for food, feathers, eggs or guano are not the only ways in which humans still exert considerable pressure on seabird populations. The destruction and alteration of habitats, the introduction of exotic animals and diseases…