Have stream invertebrate communities of Macquarie Island changed over 15 years and are they likely to respond to climate changes or other environmental factors?

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2918 See the link below for public details on this project. This project will assess the extent of changes to the freshwater stream invertebrate communities of Macquarie Island since they were last sampled 15 years ago. It will also assess whether spatial v...

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Other Authors: NUGEGODA, DAYANTHI (hasPrincipalInvestigator), NUGEGODA, DAYANTHI (processor), KEFFORD, BEN (processor), KING, CATHERINE K. (processor), MARCHANT, RICHARD (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
biota
environment
ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
EARTH SCIENCE
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
COMMUNITY DYNAMICS
BIOSPHERE
ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
INDICATOR SPECIES
WATER TEMPERATURE
TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE
WATER QUALITY/WATER CHEMISTRY
EARTH SCIENCE &gt
BIOSPHERE &gt
ECOSYSTEMS &gt
FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS &gt
RIVERS/STREAM
RIVERS/STREAMS
SURFACE WATER
stream communities
freshwater
invertebrates
climate change
biomonitoring
FIELD SURVEYS
FIELD INVESTIGATION
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
SOUTHERN OCEAN &gt
MACQUARIE ISLAND
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
Antarc*
Macquarie Island
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/stream-invertebrate-communities-environmental-factors/700054
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2918
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2918 See the link below for public details on this project. This project will assess the extent of changes to the freshwater stream invertebrate communities of Macquarie Island since they were last sampled 15 years ago. It will also assess whether spatial variation in these stream communities is related to changes in water temperature, it will experimentally examine the temperature tolerance of these freshwater taxa and will provide a long-term dataset to assess future changes, including those resulting from climate change. The use of stream macroinvertebrates as biomonitoring tools to detect impacts from human activities on Macquarie Island and other sub-Antarctic Islands will be examined. The download file contains a pdf document with several side-by-side comparison images taken in 1992 by Richard Marchant during his studies for ASAC project 555 (ASAC_555), "A Survey of the Freshwater Macroinvertebrates in Streams and Lakes of Macquarie Island", and in 2010 by James Doube. Also see the metadata record "Stream invertebrate communities of Macquarie Island" (AAS_3261) for more information.

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