Trophic Ecology of the Antarctic Nearshore Zone - Stable Isotope datasets

• Other Authors: 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; ICE EXTENT; EARTH SCIENCE; CRYOSPHERE; SEA ICE; MARINE SEDIMENTS; STABLE ISOTOPES; OCEAN CHEMISTRY; RAY-FINNED FISHES; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; FISH; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; MAMMALS; CARNIVORES; CRUSTACEANS; ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES; ARTHROPODS; AMPHIPODS; OSTRACODS; ISOPODS; FLATWORMS/FLUKES/TAPEWORMS; ROUNDWORMS; PRIAPULANS; SEA PENS; CNIDARIANS; ANTHOZOANS/OCTOCORALS; SEA ANEMONES; ANTHOZOANS/HEXACORALS; SEA STARS; ECHINODERMS; SEA URCHINS; BRITTLE/BASKET STARS; GASTROPODS; MOLLUSKS; BIVALVES; BRISTLE WORMS; SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS); LEECHES; SPONGES; SEA SQUIRTS; TUNICATES; RED ALGAE; PLANTS; MACROALGAE (SEAWEEDS); DIATOMS; MICROALGAE; BROWN ALGAE; GREEN ALGAE; PHYTOPLANKTON; BIOSPHERE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; PLANKTON; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC; COASTAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; CHELICERATES; SPECIES PREDATION; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; GRAZING DYNAMICS/PLANT HERBIVORY; SCAVENGING; USE/FEEDING HABITATS; FOOD-WEB DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; TROPHIC DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; TRENZ; isotopes; ecology; IRMS > ISOTOPIC RATIO MASS SPECTROMETER; LABORATORY; TRENZ > TRophic Ecology of the Nearshore Zone; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > EASTERN HEMISPHERE; POLAR; Antarctic; East Antarctica; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/trophic-ecology-antarctic-isotope-datasets/701946; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/TRENZ_Stable_Isotopes; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

Project Objectives 1) To describe trophic relationships in near shore marine benthic ecosystems of East Antarctica and determine the importance of environmental forces (such as sea ice and primary production) to the structure of food webs and biological interactions in benthic assemblages. 2) To determine how marine benthic food webs in East Antarctica respond to local scale disturbances (such as sewage outfalls and abandoned waste disposal sites) and develop predictive models of the influence of local human activities on trophic relationships. Collections of organisms from coastal ecosystems around Casey and Davis stations were made between 2006/07 and 2010/11.