The Ecology and Biogeography of Heard Island Marine Benthos

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; PLANTS; MACROALGAE (SEAWEEDS); EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC; COASTAL; SPECIES LIFE HISTORY; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; CORINTHIAN BAY; ALGAE; DATE; ATLAS COVE; DISTRIBUTION; HEARD ISLAND; INVERTEBRATES; KELP; MACROINVERTEBRATES; SPECIES; HOLDFAST; LOCALITY; TAXON; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; FIELD SURVEYS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; AMD; AMD/AU; CEOS; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS; HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS > Antarctic; Atlas Cove; Corinthian Bay; Heard; Heard Island; Holdfast; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Island; McDonald Islands; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/ecology-biogeography-heard-marine-benthos/685807; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_254; https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/4710/download; https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/4711/download; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=254; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_254

A preliminary trial indicated that whole plants attached to lines created too much drag for anchors, hence holdfasts were separated from fronds and tethered at the sea surface to anchored buoys. This process was undertaken on 20 November 1987, with four of the tethered holdfasts collected for faunal...