Modeling Antarctic marine ecosystems

• Main Authors: Palomares, Maria L. D., Provost, P., Pitcher, Tony, Pauly, Daniel
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Fisheries Centre. University of British Columbia 2005
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Butterworth; Canada; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; New Zealand; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Blue whale; minke whale
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/47129

DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD. ABSTRACT. INTRODUCTION. Simulating Antarctic ecosystems: Weapons of mass construction (Tony J. Pitcher). ANTARCTIC PENINSULA. An ecosystem simulation model of the Antarctic Peninsula (Aftab Erfan and Tony J. Pitcher). The Krill Fishery in the Antarctic Peninsula: Spatial ecosystem-based simulations addressing conservation concerns for charismatic species (Tony J. Pitcher and Aftab Erfan). Summary of a preliminary model of the minke whale-blue whale-krill interaction in the Antarctic (Mitsuyo Mori and Douglas S. Butterworth). KERGUELEN ISLANDS. Feeding habits of seabirds and marine mammals of the Kerguelen Archipelago (Yves Cherel, Charles-André Bost, Christophe Guinet and Henri Weimerskirch). Estimations de la biomasse des zooplanctons dans L'Archipel de Kerguelen (Jean-Philippe Labat and Patrick Mayzaud). An ecosystem model of the Kerguelen Islands' Eez (Patrice Pruvost, Guy Duhamel, Maria Lourdes D. Palomares). FALKLAND ISLANDS. A mass-balanced model of the Falkland Islands fisheries and ecosystems. (William W.L. Cheung, Tony J. Pitcher). Simulations of the Falkland Islands marine ecosystem: Climate, penguins and squid fisheries. (William W.L. Cheung and Tony J. Pitcher). Comment on penguins, squid and fisheries in the Falkland Islands ecosystem (David Agnew). NEW ZEALAND. Pilot trophic model for subantarctic water over the Southern Plateau, New Zealand: A low biomass, high transfer efficiency system (Janet Bradford-Grieve). APPENDICES. Appendix I: Modeling Antarctic ecosystems: A UBC fisheries centre and Sea Around Us project Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, 15-17 April 2003. Appendix II: Atelier ecopath pour iles Kerguelen, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, 29 Septembre au 3 Octobre 2003. Fisheries Centre (FC) Unreviewed Faculty Researcher Graduate