AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Kerguelen Plateau (Southern Ocean) diatom photographs taken using light microscopy

This dataset was collected as part of an honours project by Jessica Wilks at Macquarie University (submitted May 2012). The samples analysed were taken from an expedition conducted by Dr Leanne Armand in 2011 as part of the KEOPS2 mission (KErguelen: compared study of the Ocean and the Plateau in Surface water). During this mission 7 locations (A3-1, A3-2, E1-3, E14W2, NPF-L, R2 and TEW) around the Kerguelen Plateau were sampled for seafloor sediment. 
This study involved identification of over 50 species of diatoms as part of a species assemblage/ distribution study. A photograph of each diatom encountered in this study is included in the attached plates.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, Cameras, Diatoms, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MICROALGAE > DIATOMS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PROTISTS > DIATOMS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENT COMPOSITION, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, KEOPS2, LABORATORY, MICROSCOPES, OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN > KERGUELEN ISLANDS, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Carbon and Nitrogen Stable isotopes analysis of the lantern shellfish (Laternula elliptica)

Data shows carbon and nitrogen stable isotope concentration in siphon tissue of laternula elliptica from three sites adjacent to Casey Station. McGrady Cove, Brown Bay Inner and Shannon Bay. All shellfish were collected by divers during the 2014/15 summer season. Samples were sent to Cornell University Stable Isotope laboratory for analysis.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Brown Bay, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Shannon Bay, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS > BIVALVES, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS > BIVALVES > CLAMS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > STABLE ISOTOPES, FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, LABORATORY, Laternula elliptica, Stable Isotopes
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Cape Shirreff female Antarctic fur seal stable isotope data

To quantify the dietary preferences and trophic level consumption of post-breeding adult female Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella), we analysed the carbon:nitrogen composition of whiskers and blood samples from the females. Females were captured towards the end of the lactation period (March/April) and whiskers and a blood sample were collected at this time. Females were generally recaptured just prior to or after giving birth the following season and a further whisker and blood sample were collected at this time. 
Metadata for each individual include:
Site, GLS ID, year, flipper tag number, season, sampling date, tissue type, whisker segment number, cumulative length along whisker of the segment, d15N, d13C, percentage N, percentage C and CN ratio.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, Cape Shirreff, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA L, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES LIFE HIS, FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIELD SURVEYS, Fur Seals, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, Geolocation, LABORATORY, Livingston Island, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, Tracking
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Long-term passive acoustic recording from a deepwater mooring located en route to Casey Station in 2004

This dataset contains digitized passive acoustic recordings from a hydrophone connected to an autonomous recording device both moored near the sea-floor in the Southern Ocean. Recordings were digitised at a sample rate of 500 Hz and were continuous over the period of operation. The intended purpose of these recordings was to collect baseline data on the acoustic environment (i.e. underwater sound fields). Underwater sounds that were recorded include sounds generated by Antarctic sea ice, marine mammals, and man-made sounds from ships and geo-acoustic surveys. Marine mammal sounds include calls from blue, fin, humpback, and minke whales.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > TOOTHED WHAL, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, HYDROPHONES, MOORINGS, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, PAR, Passive Acoustic Recordings
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Detailed information on 196 grid sites used for snow petrel surveys in the Windmill Islands during the 2002/2003 season

Very little information is known about the distribution and abundance of snow petrels at the regional scale. This dataset contains locations of grid sites used to survey for snow petrels in the Windmill Islands during the 2002-2003 season. Descriptive information relating to each grid site was recorded and a detailed description of data fields is provided in the attached dataset.
Survey methodology used 200*200 m grid squares in which exhaustive searches were conducted (FO). Search effort for these is provided in the dataset.
The fields in this dataset are:
Site
Nest
Region
Date
Time
Ice free area
UTM Coordinates

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, ANTARCTICA, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, DATE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL, FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, GRID SITE, ICE FREE AREA, MAPPING, NEST, PAGODROMA NIVEA, REGION, SNOW PETREL, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION, TIME, UTM COORDINATES, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, WINDMILL ISLANDS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
SRE4 Sediment Chemistry

Sediment Recruitment Experiment 4 (SRE4) was a large, long term (5 year) field experiment run at Casey Station (from 2001 to 2006) testing the effects of 4 different hydrocarbons on marine sediment ecosystems. Four different types of hydrocarbons were individually mixed with defaunated marine sediments and deployed in trays on the seabed at O'Brien Bay-1. Trays were collected after deployment periods of 5 weeks, 56 weeks, 62 weeks, 2 years and 5 years. In addition there was a bioturbation treatment using the burrowing urchin Abatus (at 56 weeks only). Samples were collected from 4 replicate trays of each treatment at each sampling time. Analyses were done of sediment hydrocarbon chemistry, microbial communities, meiofaunal communities, macrofaunal communities and diatom communities. The hydrocarbon treatments were: a synthetic Mobil lubricating oil; the same Mobil lubricating oil after 125? hours use in a vehicle engine; a Fuchs synthetic lubricating oil marketed as highly biodegradable; and Special Antarctic Blend diesel fuel (SAB). A control uncontaminated sediment treatment was used for comparison.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > AMPHI, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > ISOPO, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS > OSTRA, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ECHINODERMS > SEA URCHINS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS > BIVALVES, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS > GASTROPODS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS) > BRI, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > SPECIES RECRUITMENT, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE/MANAGEMENT > ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS, EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > OIL SPILLS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > BIOTURBATION, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENT COMPOSITION, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > HYDROCARBONS, FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, SAB, SEDIMENT TRAPS, VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA FLOOR, biodegradable oil, diesel fuel, field experiment, lubricating oil
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Circum-Antarctic landfast sea ice distribution at minimum extent, 2018-2022

This dataset (provided as a series of CF-compatible netcdf file) consists of 5 maps of Antarctic landfast sea ice, derived from NASA MODIS imagery. There is one map per year, spanning the 5 year period from 2018 to 2022. The one map per year covers the time period from Day-Of-Year 61-75, which is the time of yearly minimum extent.
The data are provided in a polar stereographic projection with a latitude of true scale at 70 S (i.e., to maintain compatibility with the NSIDC polar stereographic projection).

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, Aqua > "Earth Observing System, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT, EARTH SCIENCE > CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE TYPES, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SEA ICE > ICE TYPES, FAST ICE, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, LANDFAST SEA ICE, MODIS > Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, Terra > "Earth Observing System
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Role of Antarctic marine protists in trophodynamics and global change and impact of UV-B on these organisms - Rotation 4 of the Astrolabe - 2008/2009 samples

This dataset contains locations of sampling sites for ASAC project 40 on rotation 4 of the French polar supply ship L'Astrolabe in the 2008/2009 season. Samples were collected between February and March of 2009.  It also contains information on chlorophyll, carotenoids, coccolithophorids and species identification and counts.
Public Summary from the project:
...
This program aims to determine the role of single celled plants, animals, bacteria and viruses in Antarctic waters. We quantify their vital role as food for other organisms, their potential influence in moderating global climate change through absorption of CO2 and production of DMS, and determine their response to effect of climate change.
For more information, see the other metadata records related to ASAC project 40 (ASAC_40).
The fields in this dataset are:
Tube Label
Date (UTC)
Time (UTC)
Latitude
Longitude
Sea Temperature
Ice (Presence or Absence)
Coccolithophorid sample (yes or no)
Plankton Net Sample
Chlorophyll a (micro grams per litre)

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CAROTENOIDS, CEOS, CHEMTAX, CHLOROPHYLL, COCCOLITHOPHORID, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, DATE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PROTISTS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS > PLANKTON > PHYTOPLANKTON, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > CHLOROPHYLL, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CHEMISTRY > PIGMENTS > CHLOROPHYLL, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, ICE, MARINE BIOLOGY, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, PHYTOPLANKTON, PLANKTON NET SAMPLE, PROTISTS, R/V L'ASTRO > R/V L'ASTROLABE, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Orca observations on Macquarie Island

This dataset contains sporadic shore based observations of killer whales (Orcinus orca) from Macquarie Island from 1989 to 1998 (inclusive). The following data are included in the dataset:
Date and time of observation (Australian Eastern Standard Time) The name of the observer The location of the observation (the beach or bay from which the observation was made). The latitude and longitude of the sighted animal (WGS84). The sex of the animal (M=Male, F=Female) (where available). Lifestage of the animal (where available). The observed individual count. Extra notes relating to the observation.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > TOOTHED WHAL, FIELD SURVEYS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, Killer Whales, Macquarie Island, OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM, OBIS/AADC, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND, Orcas, Orcinus orca, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
210-Pb activities data from multi-core sediment samples collected during the IN2017-V01 voyage of the RV Investigator

Sediment cores were collected from the East Antarctic margin, aboard the Australian Marine National Facility R/V Investigator from January 14th to March 5th 2017 (IN2017_V01; Armand et al., 2018). This marine geoscience expedition, named the “Sabrina Sea Floor Survey”, focused notably on studying the interactions of the Totten Glacier with the Southern Ocean through multiple glacial cycles. The cores were collected using a multi-corer, allowing to sample the surface of the sediment (top ~ 30cm). The cores were then  sliced every centimetre, wrapped up in plastic bags, and stored in the fridge. The sediment samples were dated using 210-Pb analysis for future paleo-reconstructions. 210-Pb is a radioisotope which allows to date sediment back to 150 years, which is ideal for surface (i.e. recent) sediment samples. 
Sediment samples were dried, ground and sent to Edith Cowan University (Joondalup, Western Australia) for sample preparation and analysis. Total 210Pb was determined through the analysis of its granddaughter 210Po by alpha spectrometry after complete sample digestion using an analytical microwave in the presence of a known amount of 209Po added as a tracer (Sanchez-Cabeza et al., 1998). The concentrations of excess 210Pb were determined as the difference between total 210Pb and 226Ra (supported 210Pb), the later determined by gamma spectrometry through the measurement of its decay products 214Pb and 214Bi using a HPGe detector (CANBERRA, Mod. SAGe Well).
References
L.K. Armand, P.E. O’Brien and On-board Scientific Party. 2018. Interactions of the Totten Glacier with the Southern Ocean through multiple glacial cycles (IN2017-V01): Post-survey report, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University: Canberra.
Sanchez-Cabeza J. A., Masqué P. and Ani-Ragolta I. (1998) 210Pb and 210Po analysis in sediments and soils by microwave acid digestion. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 227, 19–22.

Tags: ALPHA-SPECTROMETERS, AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > WILKES LAND, EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > PALEOCLIMATE INDICATORS > PALEOCLIMATE RECONSTRUCTIONS > SEDIME, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS > SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY, GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, LABORATORY, LEAD-210, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, RV INVESTIGATOR, SEDIMENT CORERS, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Visual observations recorded during the Antarctic blue whale voyage to the Southern Ocean 2013

The ‘Logger’ data entry system was developed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and is a flexible system to record information during a voyage. This system was the primary data entry system for the voyage and all events were recorded in Logger’s database.
The logger access database contains all data collected throughout the Antarctic blue whale voyage related to:
Observer effort (effort status, event, number of observers and locations, ship guide and data logger)
Cetacean sightings and resightings (time, sighting number, sighting platform, estimate distance, binocular reticles, angle, species, sighting cue, heading, estimate of number of individuals, observer of sighting, behaviour, pod compaction, comments)
Sonobuoy deployments (time, sonobuoy number, notes)
Environmental observations (sightability, sea state, swell, weather, cloud cover, visibility, intensity, glare, ice, sea surface temperature)
GPS data (time indexed NMEA feed)
CTD deployments (time, notes)
Biopsy events (time, success, sample number, reaction, attempts, dart recovery, notes)

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, ANTARCTIC BLUE WHALE VOYAGE, BINOCULAR > BINOCULAR, BLUE WHALE, CEOS, CETACEAN VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA, Computer > Computer, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALE, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > TOOTHED WHAL, FV AMALTAL EXPLORER, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, LOGGER DATABASE, MARK RECAPTURE, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, SHIPS
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Geographe Marine Park Bathymetry - 5m Resolution Grid

Australia has established a network of 58 marine parks within Commonwealth waters covering a total of 3.3 million square kilometres, or 40 per cent of our exclusive economic zone (excluding Australian Antarctic Territory). These parks span a range of settings, from near coastal and shelf habitats to abyssal plains. Parks Australia manages the park network through management plans that came into effect for all parks on 1 July 2018. Geoscience Australia is contributing to their management by collating and interpreting existing environmental data, and through the collection of new marine data.  “Eco-narrative” documents are being developed for those parks, where sufficient information is available, delivering collations and interpretations of seafloor geomorphology, oceanography and ecology. Many of these interpretations rely on bathymetric grids and their derived products, including those in this data release.
Bathymetry grids:
The bathymetry of the marine parks was created by compiling and processing Geoscience Australia’s bathymetry data holding gridded at the optimum resolution depending of the vessel’s sonar system.
The bathymetry of the park is illustrated by a panchromatic geotiff image, developed by combining the bathymetric data with a hillshade image.
Morphological Surfaces:
Geoscience Australia has developed a new marine seafloor classification scheme, which uses the two-part seafloor mapping morphology approach of Dove et al (2016). This new scheme is semi-hierarchical and the first step divides the slope of the seafloor into three Morphological Surface categories (Plain, &lt;2°; Slope, 2-10°; Escarpment, &gt;10°).
Dove, D., Bradwell, T., Carter, G., Cotterill, C., Gafeira, J., Green, S., Krabbendam, M., Mellet, C., Stevenson, A., Stewart, H., Westhead, K., Scott, G., Guinan, J., Judge, M. Monteys, X., Elvenes, S., Baeten, N., Dolan, M., Thorsnes, T., Bjarnadóttir, L., Ottesen, D. (2016). Seabed geomorphology: a twopart classification system. British Geological Survey, Open Report OR/16/001. 13 pages.
This research is supported by the National Environmental Science Program (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub through Project D1.

Tags: Marine Biodiversity Hub, National Environmental Science Program, Published_External, bathymetry, bathymetry grid, marine, marine data
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Hydrographic survey HI350 by the RAN Australian Hydrographic Service at Mawson, January to March 2002

The RAN Australian Hydrographic Service conducted hydrographic survey HI350 at Mawson, January to March 2002. The survey area was north of the station between Williams Rocks and Parallactic Islands and also at Moller Bank.
The survey dataset, which includes metadata, was provided to the Australian Antarctic Data Centre by the Australian Hydrographic Office and is available for download from a Related URL in this metadata record.
The survey was lead by LCDR M.Pounder.
The data are not suitable for navigation.

Tags: AMD, AMD/AU, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > MAWSON, DEPTH, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY, EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN, SHIPS, SOUNDING
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network
Stomach content analysis of mesopelagic fish from the southern Kerguelen Axis

Mesopelagic fish gut content data from the Kerguelen Axis ecosystem study (AAS_4344):
These data are based on samples collected as part of the Kerguelen Axis marine ecosystem study (AAS_4344), chief scientist Andrew Constable. This research was supported by the Australian government under the (i) Cooperative Research Centre Program through the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC), (ii) Australian Antarctic Science Program (Projects 4343, 4344, 4347 and 4366), and (iii) Australian Research Council’s Special Research Initiative for Antarctic Gateway Partnership (Project ID SR140300001).
The preferred citation is:
Riaz, J., Walters, A., Trebilco, R., Bestley, S., Lea, M-A. (2019) Stomach content analysis of mesopelagic fish from the southern Kerguelen Axis. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography.
Samples for gut content analysis were collected on board the R.S.V Aurora Australis during the austral summer of 2016 (22 January-17 February) during the Kerguelen Axis marine ecosystem survey (AAS_4344). Analyses focused on four of the most common and widespread Southern Ocean mesopelagic fish species: three myctophids (Electrona antarctica, Gymnoscopelus braueri, Krefftichthys anderssoni), and one bathylagid (Bathylagus antarcticus). Species were sampled across a broad range of size classes to investigate the influence of predator size on predator and prey size relationships. Fish were collected from six sampling stations along the major south-to-north transect of the Kerguelen Axis. Three sampling sites were located in subpolar waters south of the Southern Boundary (SB) of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) over the Princess Elizabeth Trough. The other three sampling sites were located north of the Southern Antarctic Circumpolar Circulation Front (SACCF) over the Banzare Bank on the southern Kerguelen Plateau.The contribution and relative importance of prey taxa to stomach contents was quantified with four traditional metrics of dietary composition (Hyslop 1980). These were calculated for each fish species separately at northern and southern sampling stations, and across species within all stations. 
Hyslop, E. J. (1980) Stomach contents analysis-a review of methods and their application. Journal of Fish Biology 17:411.

Tags: ACE/CRC, AMD, AMD/AU, BATHYLAGID, CEOS, CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > EAST ANTARCTICA, DIET, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH > RAY-FINNED FISHES, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS > FOOD-WEB DYNAMICS, FORAGING ECOLOGY, GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR, IYGPT, LABORATORY, MESOPELAGIC, MIDWATER TRAWLS, MYCTOPHID, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > BANZARE BANK, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > PRINCESS ELIZABETH TROUGH, OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > SOUTHERN KERGUELEN PLATEAU REGION, R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis, STOMACH CONTENT, TRAWL
Organization: Australian Ocean Data Network