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Preliminary assessment of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) in the vicinity of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Division 58.5.2), based on a survey in July 2007, using the generalised yield model CCAMLR Scientific Papers, 2007 (Ref: 13333)
Authors:
Welsford D.C.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Report on a random stratified trawl survey to estimate distribution and abundance of Dissostichus eleginoides and Champsocephalus gunnari conducted in the Heard Island region (Division 58.5.2), May-June 2007 CCAMLR Scientific Papers, 2007 (Ref: 13332)
Authors:
Nowara G.B.Lamb T.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Summary of holdings of Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) otoliths and size-at-age estimates from Heard and McDonald Islands (Division 58.5.2) CCAMLR Scientific Papers, 2007 (Ref: 13331)
Authors:
Welsford D.C.Nowara G.B.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Preliminary assessment of the exploratory fishery for Dissostichus spp. on BANZARE Bank (Division 58.4.3B), based on the analysis of fine-scale catch and effort data CCAMLR Scientific Papers, 2007 (Ref: 13330)
Authors:
McKinlay J.P.Welsford D.C.Constable A.J.Nowara G.B.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Educational poster on hook ingestion CCAMLR Scientific Papers, 2007 (Ref: 13329)
Authors:
Robertson G.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Line weights of constant mass (and sink rates) for Spanish-rig Patagonian toothfish longline vessels CCAMLR Scientific Papers, 2007 (Ref: 13328)
Authors:
Robertson G.Moreno C.A.Gutierrez E.Candy S.G.Melvin E.F.Seco Pon J.P.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Autoliners and seabird by-catch: do line setters increase the sink rate of integrated weight longlines? CCAMLR Scientific Papers, 2007 (Ref: 13327)
Authors:
Robertson G.Williamson J.McNeill M.Candy S.Smith N.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Setting management goals using information from predators Top predators in marine ecosystems: their role in monitoring and management, 2006 (Ref: 13325)
Authors:
Constable A.
Category 2: International meeting papers

A molecular approach to identify prey of the southern rock lobster Bulletin of Entomological Research, 2008 (Ref: 13351)
Authors:
Redd K.S.Jarman S.N.Frusher S.D.Johnson C.R.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We demonstrate the use of molecular techniques to detect specific prey … consumed by the southern rock lobster ( Jasus edwardsii). A quick and non-lethal … method was used to collect rock lobster faecal material and a molecular protocol … was employed to isolate prey DNA from faecal samples.

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels: rationale, history, progress and the way forward Marine Ornithology, 2006 (Ref: 13335)
Authors:
Cooper J.Baker G.B.Double M.C.Gales R.Papworth W.Tasker M.L.Waugh S.M.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) is a newly-constituted international treaty that as yet may be little … known to marine ornithologists around the world. We outline the rationale for the existence of the Agreement, the history of its development…

CCAMLR process of risk assessment to minimise the effects of longline fishing mortality on seabirds Marine Policy, 2007 (Ref: 13334)
Authors:
Waugh S.M.Baker G.B.Gales R.Croxall J.P.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Can we measure the benefits of help in cooperatively breeding birds: the case of superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus? Journal of Animal Ecology, 2008 (Ref: 13320)
Authors:
Cockburn A.Sims R.A.Osmond H.L.Green D.J.Double M.C.Mulder R.A.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

1. Correlational studies of reproductive success are plagued by difficulty over the direction of … causation. For example, improved reproductive success with age can result from increased … experience or reproductive effort, or selection against low-quality phenotypes that survive poorly.

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)
Authors:
van Waerebeek K.Baker A.N.Félix F.Gedamke J.Iñiguez M.Sanino G.P.Secchi E.Sutaria D.van Helden A.Wang Y.
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…

An assessment strategy evaluation framework for testing the application of a CASAL-based management system to the HIMI fishery CCAMLR WG-EMM Meeting, Christchurch, NZ, July 2007, 2007 (Ref: 13034)
Authors:
Ball I.R.Candy S.G.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Proposed methodology for the assessment of the exploratory fishery for Dissostichus spp. on BANZARE Bank (Division 58.4.3b) CCAMLR WG-EMM Meeting, Christchurch, NZ, July 2007, 2007 (Ref: 13033)
Authors:
Welsford D.C.Constable A.C.Nowara G.B.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Summary factsheets for bioregionalisation of the Southern Ocean - examples from the Indian Ocean Sector (Area 58) CCAMLR Workshop on Bioregionalisation. Brussels, Belgium, August 2007, 2007 (Ref: 13126)
Authors:
Martin-Smith K.O'Brien P.Raymond B.Constable A.
Category 2: International meeting papers

Factsheets outlining the physical and biological attributes of selected sectors of the CCAMLR … convention area are presented. An overview of CCAMLR Area 58 (Indian Ocean Sector) illustrates … bathymetry and major oceanographic features (fronts and sea ice extent)…

Rationale, structure and current templates of the Ecosystem, Productivity, Ocean, Climate (EPOC) modelling framework to support evaluation of strategies to subdivide the Area 48 krill catch limit amongst small-scale management units CCAMLR WG-EMM Meeting, Christchurch, NZ, July 2007, 2007 (Ref: 13035)
Authors:
Constable A.J.
Category 2: International meeting papers

A von Bertalanffy growth model for toothfish at Heard Island fitted to length-at-age data and compared to observed growth from mark-recapture studies CCAMLR Science, 2007 (Ref: 13168)
Authors:
Candy S.G.Constable A.J.Lamb T.Williams R.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Length-at-age data for Patagonian toothfi sh (Dissostichus eleginoides) at Heard Island … (Division 58.5.2) were fi tted using a von Bertalanffy (VB) growth model taking into … account response-biased sampling of fi sh that were aged. Subsampling of random lengthfrequency … (LF)…

Comparison of census methods for black-browed albatrosses breeding at the Ildefonso Archipelago, Chile Polar Biology, 2008 (Ref: 13305)
Authors:
Robertson G.Moreno C.A.Lawton K.Kirkwood R.Valencia J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

A breeding population of black-browed albatrosses … has been known to exist at the Ildefonso Archipelago, Chile, for >90 years but the population has never been … censused using scientiWcally defendable methods. To estimate … population size…

Summertime mixed layer development in the marginal sea ice zone off the Mawson coast, East Antarctica Deep-Sea Research Part II, 2008 (Ref: 13303)
Authors:
Williams G.D.Nicol S.Raymond B.Meiners K.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Two small-scale Antarctic marine ecosystem surveys were conducted offshore from the Mawson coast ð61266EÞ, in the austral … summers of January 2001 and 2003.

Swingin' in the rain: condition dependence and sexual selection in a capricious world Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2008 (Ref: 13291)
Authors:
Cockburn A.Osmond H.L.Double M.C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Signals used in mate attraction are predicted to be highly condition dependent, and thus should be … sensitive to environmental contributions to condition. However, the effects of temporal fluctuations in the … environment on sexual selection in long-lived animals have been largely ignored.

Cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wrens show no facultative manipulation of offspring sex ratio despite plausible benefits Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, 2008 (Ref: 13290)
Authors:
Cockburn A.Double M.C.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

We report a long-term study of offspring sex … ratios in the cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wren … Malurus cyaneus. Detailed study of this species had … revealed a suite of potentially strong selection pressures … on the sex ratio. First…

Demography of male reproductive queues in cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus Journal of Animal Ecology, 2008 (Ref: 13289)
Authors:
Cockburn A.Osmond H.L.Mulder R.A.Double M.C.Green D.J.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

1. Subordinate helpers in cooperative societies may gain both immediate and future benefits, including paternity and territorial inheritance. However, if such opportunities correlate with rank … in the queue, it is unclear why such queues should be stable. 2.

Ecology of Antarctic krill Biological Science: Heredity (in Japanese), 2008 (Ref: 13277)
Authors:
Kawaguchi S.
Category 3: Article

Abundance and grazing impacts of krill, salps and copepods along the 140°E meridian in the Southern Ocean during summer Antarctic Science, 2008 (Ref: 13276)
Authors:
Tanimura A.Kawaguchi S.Oka N.Nishikawa J.Toczko S.Takahashi K.T.Terazaki M.Odate T.Fukuchi M.Hosie G.
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Abundance and grazing impacts of krill, salps and herbivorous copepods were investigated in … Antarctic waters along the 1408E meridian, south of Australia, during the summers of 2002 and 2003. North of the Southern Boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (SB-ACC)…

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