Aliens in Antarctica Project - Inspection of fresh food for alien propagules

• Other Authors: BERGSTROM, DANA M. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), BERGSTROM, DANA M. (processor), WARE, CHRIS (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; environment; health; transportation; FOOD CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY; EARTH SCIENCE; AGRICULTURE; FOOD SCIENCE; FOOD QUALITY; EXOTIC VEGETATION; BIOSPHERE; VEGETATION; CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS; HUMAN DIMENSIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; CONSERVATION; ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; FUNGI; EXOTIC SPECIES; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; food; aliens; propagules; invertebrates; pears; Penicillium; FIELD SURVEYS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; CONTINENT > AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND > AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND; ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS; Antarctic; Heard; McDonald Islands; New Zealand; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Australian Antarctic Program; Iceberg*; International Polar Year; IPY; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/aliens-antarctica-project-alien-propagules/700039; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2904_Food; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

International Polar Year (IPY) Aliens in Antarctica project aims to identify human-mediated pathways for alien propagules into the Antarctic ecosystem (www.aliensinantarctica.aq). As part of this international project, AAD staff examined fresh food and cargo for evidence of propagules prior to shipp...