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Speciation and phylogeography of giant petrels Macronectes Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2009 (Ref: 13957)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We examine global phylogeography of the two forms of giant petrel Macronectes spp. Although previously … considered to be a single taxon, and despite debate over the status of some populations and the … existence of minimal genetic data (one mitochondrial cytochrome b sequence per form)…

Report by the Taxonomy Working Group to the fourth meeting of the ACAP Advisory Committee - Cape Town, South Africa 2007. AC4 Doc12 Fourth Meeting of the ACAP Advisory Committee. Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP), 2008 (Ref: 13539)
Category 2: International meeting papers

This report presents the application of the taxonomic guidelines developed by the … Taxonomy Working Group to three pairs of taxa currently listed under Annex 1 … (Attachment 1) of the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels … (ACAP): 1. Amsterdam and Wandering Albatross…

Acclimation of Antarctic bottom-ice algal communities to lowered salinities during melting. Polar Biology, 2004 (Ref: 12029)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Sea-ice brine algal communities were exposed … to salinities between 30 and 10& during melting. There … was a progressive decline in maximum quantum yield, relative electron transfer rate (rETRmax) and photosynthetic … efficiency (a) with decreasing salinity of the final … melted sample.

To determine the proportion of Australian shy albatrosses (Thalassarche cauta) killed in pelagic longline and trawl fisheries Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. Third Meeting of Advisory Committee, Valdivia, Chile 19-22 June 2007 AC3 Inf19, 2007 (Ref: 13015)
Category 2: International meeting papers

Pelagic longline and trawl fisheries are known to kill large numbers of albatrosses worldwide. However, the impact on individual species and populations has rarely been assessed, often … because many albatross species are difficult to identify. Shy albatrosses (Thalassarche … cauta)…

A global assessment of the impact of fisheries-related mortality on shy and white-capped albatrosses: Conservation implications Biological Conservation, 2007 (Ref: 12934)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Hundreds of thousands of seabirds are killed each year as a result of interacting with longline … and trawl fishing operations, and the severity of the impact varies regionally. Shy and whitecapped … albatrosses, Thalassarche cauta and Thalassarche steadi respectively…

Assessing hot-iron and cryo-branding for permanently marking southern elephant seals. Journal of Wildlife Management, 2006 (Ref: 12803)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The process of marking otherwise indistinguishable animals … as individuals (and following them through subsequent … phases of their lives) has been central to numerous advances … in animal ecology, management, and conservation (Caughley … and Gunn 1996). Indeed…

Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006, 2006 (Ref: 12749)
Category 3: Poster

The Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC) plays a key role in managing and providing … access to scientific data collected under the auspices of the Australian Antarctic program. Through its membership of the Joint Committee of Antarctic Data Management (JCADM)…

A new vegetation dataset for Heard Island. Abstracts of the SCAR Open Science Conference, Hobart, 12-14 July 2006., 2006 (Ref: 12503)
Category 3: Poster

Over the past three years a successful collaboration between a university scientist, the AADC … and EPPS has occurred, where old field data from the 1980s has been resurrected using new … mapping technologies to produce a detailed vegetation map of Heard Island. In this paper…

Diurnal changes in photosynthesis of Antarctic fast ice algal communities determined by pulse amplitude modulation fluorometry. Marine Biology, 2003 (Ref: 12030)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The aim of this project was to determine both … the diurnal changes in photosynthetic activity of Antarctic … sea ice algae and also the protective mechanisms … they use to mitigate the effects of in situ UV radiation.

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