Kelp rafts in the Southern Ocean: intercontinental travel for sessile and semi-sessile organisms.

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN CURRENTS; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES; PLANTS > MACROALGAE (SEAWEEDS); BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > MIGRATORY RATES/ROUTES; kelp; rafts; sessile; semi-sessile; dispersal; ADS > Automated DNA Sequencer; LABORATORY; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Southern Ocean; Kerguelen; New Zealand; Gough; Kerguelen Island; Bounty Islands; Macquarie Island; Marion Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/kelp-rafts-southern-sessile-organisms/2820168

Progress Code: completed Statement: The figures provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only. Taken from the 2009-2010 progress report: Field work: During the 2009/2010 season, Dr James Doube and other AAD personnel based at Macquarie Island were able to collect the macroalgal samples we requested. Field work was undertaken at two sites close to the Base: one on the east coast (Garden Cove, 57F 0496283 3960990) and one on the west coast (Cosray Rocks, 57F 0495752 3960973). Fieldwork involved collection of small samples of intertidal seaweeds (macroalgae) from rock platforms at Macquarie Islands. Samples were preserved in ethanol, and couriered to our department at the University of Otago. These samples were received on 14 May 2010, and are now being processed in the laboratory. Field work for the broader project is ongoing - however, during the 2009 / 2010 summer, we collected (or were sent) samples from: - the Falkland Islands - central Chile - southern Chile (fiordland) - the New Zealand subantarctic (Campbell, Auckland, Snares, Antipodes and Bounty Islands) - Kerguelen Island - Marion Island - Gough Island - Tasmania, Australia Difficulties affecting project: Not all target species of seaweed were obtained from all collection sites (both at Macquarie Is and elsewhere) - however, on the whole we have obtained most of our target taxa from a broad range of subantarctic locations. Note from AADC, 2018-08-03: The original datasheet was reformatted to fit OBIS/GBFI/IPT Biodiversity.AQ standardS. The new datasheet "KelpRafts.csv" provides the dataset from Macquarie Island samples. Contains datasetID, occurrenceID, event date, decimal latitude, decimal longitude. The lowest taxonomical rank of the species identified that could be determined is provided, after matched in WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species). As the data is genetics identification the associatedSequence and associatedReferences are provided. Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2914 See the link below for public details ...