Collections

The SOCEP research objective is to detect and document cetacean sightings and relevant environmental and other information throughout the voyage. The BROKE-West multidisciplinary voyage provides an opportunity to correlate sightings data with oceanographic and biology research conducted by other programs. Search effort is conducted over a broad range of weather conditions. The majority of Antarctic species are medium to large whales, with cues that can be detected in relatively high Beaufort sea states up to and including Beaufort Sea State 7.

Collection published on 9-Jul-2011

Taxa - Whales,

Habitat Domain - Marine,

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Collection published on 1-Jul-2011

Taxa - Phytoplankton,

Habitat Domain - Marine,

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The BROKE-West survey was conducted from 30 degrees E and 80 degrees E between January and March 2006. It consisted of 1 east-west transect at the northernmost limit of the survey between 60 degrees S and 62 degrees S between the 10 and 19 of January, followed by 11 meridional transects separated by 5 degrees of longitude and extending from approximately 62 degrees S to the Antarctic continental shelf between the 19 January and 3 March. This dataset details research undertaken to determine the identity, composition and abundance of protists in the survey area.

Collection published on 1-Jul-2011

Taxa - Phytoplankton,

Habitat Domain - Marine,

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Locations of sampling sites for ASAC project 40 on voyage 3 of the Aurora Australis in the 2001/2002 season. The dataset also contains information on chlorophyll, carotenoids, coccolithophorids and species indentification and counts.

Collection published on 1-Jul-2011

Taxa - Phytoplankton,

Habitat Domain - Marine,

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Locations of sampling sites for ASAC project 40 on voyage 7 of the Aurora Australis in the 2001/2002 season. The dataset also contains information on chlorophyll, carotenoids, coccolithophorids and species indentification and counts.

Collection published on 1-Jul-2011

Taxa - Phytoplankton,

Habitat Domain - Marine,

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A catalogue of penguin colony census records from 1931 to the present day and limited geographically to the Australian Antarctic Territory. The present set is from 40E to Gaussberg.

Collection published on 1-May-2011

Taxa - Penguins,

Habitat Domain - Marine,

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Squid collected as a product of fish surveys. Some records here are not in the RMT trawl collection of pelagic fish for this voyage.

Collection published on 1-Dec-2010

Taxa - Cephalopods, Other invertebrates,

Habitat Domain - Marine,

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Collection of marine invertebrate specimens from the bycatch of pelagic and benthic trawls conducted by ANARE personnel. Collection methods included IYGPT net (88 samples from 39 sites), benthic trawls (22 samples from 21 sites), RMT net (5 samples from 5 sites), one drift net sample, one mud grab and several specimens from CTD winch wire.

Collection published on 1-Dec-2010

Habitat Domain - Marine,

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The atlas shows the known distribution and abundance of each vascular species on Macquarie Island immediately prior to the commencement of control measures against rabbits in 1978. It gives a baseline against which changes in the vegetation can be monitored. The effects of the introduced vertebrates on the vegetation are discussed. Additional data are given on the habitat, gregarious performance and phenology of some species.

Collection published on 1-Nov-2010

Taxa - Vascular plants,

Habitat Domain - Terrestrial,

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Two endemic orchid species, Nematoceras dienemum and N. sulcatum, are known from sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Several additional orchid populations on the island are reported and cleistogamy is documented in N. dienemum for the first time. The known population sizes, habitats and locations for both orchid species are documented here, and new information on their biology and population ecology is provided.

Collection published on 1-Nov-2010

Taxa - Vascular plants,

Habitat Domain - Terrestrial,

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