A manipulative field experiment examining the effect of contaminated sediment on the recruitment and recolonisation of soft-sediment infauna.

• 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; ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; CRUSTACEANS; ARTHROPODS; ECHINODERMS; MOLLUSKS; SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS); EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC; COASTAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; SPECIES DOMINANCE INDICES; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ANTARCTICA; ARSENIC; ASSEMBLAGE; CADMIUM; COMMUNITY; CONTAMINATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; COPPER; HUMAN IMPACT; LEAD; LOCATION; MACROBENTHOS; RECRUITMENT; RECOLONISATION; POLLUTION; SILVER; SITE AND REP; SITE; TMT; SPECIES; TOXICITY; ZINC; MICROSCOPES; LABORATORY; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > East Antarctica; Casey Station; Brown Bay; O'Brien Bay; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Austral; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/manipulative-field-experiment-sediment-infauna/699762; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/59b0c191e03b8; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2201_Casey_SRE1; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

The effect of location, depth and sediment contamination on recruitment of soft-sediment assemblages were examined in a pilot experiment at Casey Station, East Antarctica. Two locations were used, a polluted bay adjacent to an old disused tip site (Brown Bay) and an undisturbed control (O'Brien...