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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)…
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…
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.
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)…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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.