Photoquadrat survey of hard substratum assemblages around Casey Station: flat and sloping rocky areas.

• Other Authors: RIDDLE, MARTIN J. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), STARK, JONATHAN SEAN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), STARK, JONATHAN SEAN (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; environment; oceans; transportation; CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS; EARTH SCIENCE; HUMAN DIMENSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; HEAVY METALS CONCENTRATION; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; MARINE OBSTRUCTIONS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; FISH; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES; CRUSTACEANS; ARTHROPODS; FLATWORMS/FLUKES/TAPEWORMS; CNIDARIANS; SEA ANEMONES; ANTHOZOANS/HEXACORALS; ECHINODERMS; MOLLUSKS; SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS); SPONGES; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC; COASTAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; INDIGENOUS/NATIVE SPECIES; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DOMINANCE INDICES; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ASSEMBLAGE; ASCIDIANS; BIVALVES; COMMUNITY; CONTAMINATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMPACT; MACROBENTHOS; POLLUTION; RECOLONISATION; RECRUITMENT; TUBE WORMS; Cameras; FIELD SURVEYS; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > East Antarctica; Casey Station; Brown Bay; O'Brien Bay; Shannon Bay; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/photoquadrat-survey-hard-rocky-areas/699760; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2201_Casey_photoquadrats1; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

A survey of the epibenthic fauna of hard-substrata was made around Casey Station, using a camera mounted on a frame to take photoquadrats. A nested sampling design was used with several spatial scales. At each location there were two sites, approximately 50-100 m apart. At each site there were three by 15 m long transects, approximately 5 m apart. On each transect there were 2 plots, 5 m long by 2 m wide. Six photoquadrats were taken in each plot. This metadata record describes one component of this survey, photoquadrats taken in flat or gently sloping rocky areas, where the bottom consisted of flat bedrock, gravel or cobbles. A separate survey was done in and around boulders and boulder fields. One of the aims of this survey was to determine if there is any evidence of human impacts in these assemblages. There were several control and several potentially impacted locations. The data have yet to be analysed. Also links to ASAC 1100.