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Expert Group on Birds and Marine Mammals (EG-BAMM)
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Andrés Barbosa et.al (2020). Risk assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in Antarctic wildlife. Science of The Total Environment, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143352.
The Retrospective Analysis of the Antarctic Tracking Data (RAATD) project is undertaking a multi-species assessment of habitat use of Antarctic top predators in the Southern Ocean based on existing animal tracking data to identify Areas of Ecological Significance (AES), which are regions that are important for foraging to a range of predators and which have high diversity and abundance of lower trophic levels.
The first workshop in Brussels established a database (with associated metadata) of over 2000 individual tracks from the Southern Ocean, drawing on contributions from more than 30 data owners. The workshop also established an analytical frame work for analyses of these data to identify AES in the Southern Ocean based on existing animal tracking data.
The second meeting was hosted by the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (institute for Advanced Studies) in Delmenhorst, Germany, with financial support from HWK, the Alfred Wegner Institute, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), SCAR, and Macquarie University. The participants included database specialists, spatial ecologists and statisticians with the objective to consolidate the database and to develop the habitat utilisation models (HUMs) that underpin the RAATD goals.
Meeting reports are below:
Xavier, J. C., Brandt, A., Ropert-Coudert, Y., Badhe, R., Gutt, J., Havermans, C., Jones, C., Costa, E. S., Lochte, K., Schloss, I. R., Kennicutt, C., & Sutherland, W. J. (2016). Future challenges in Southern Ocean life and ecology research. Frontiers in Marine Science DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00094
Kennicutt II, M. C., Chown, S. L., Cassano, J. J., Liggett, D., Massom, R., Peck, L. S., Rintoul, S. R., Storey, J., W. V., Vaughn, D. G.,Wilson, T. J., Allison, I., Ayton, J., Badhe, R., Baeseman, J., Barrett, P. J., Bell, R. E., Bertler, N., Bo, S., Brandt, A., Bromwich, D., Cary, C., Clark, M. S., Convey, P., Costa, E. S., Cowan, D., DeConto, R., Dunbar, R., Elfring, C., Escutia, C., Francis, J., Fricker, H. A., Fukuchi, M., Gilbert, N., Gutt, J., Havermans, C., Hik, D., Hosie, G., Jones, C., Kim, Y., Le Maho, Y., Lee, S., Leppe, M., Leichenkova, G., Li, X., Lipenkov, V., Lochte, K., López-Martínez, J., Lüdecke, C., Lyons, W. B., Marenssi, S., Miller, H., Morozova, P., Naish, T., Nayak, S., Ravindra, R., Retamales, J., Ricci, C. A., Rogan-Finnemore, M., Ropert-Coudert, Y., Samah, A. A., Sanson, L., Scambos, T., Schloss, I., Shiraishia, K., Siegert, M. A., Simões, J., Sparrow, M. D., Storey, B., Wall, D. H., Walsh, J. C., Wilson, G., Winter, J. - G., Xavier, J. C., Yang, H., Sutherland, W. J. (2015) A roadmap for Antarctic and Southern Ocean science for the next two decades and beyond. Antarctic science 27 (01): 3-18 doi:10.1017/S0954102014000674
Xavier, J. C., Fugmann, G., Beck,I., Huffman, L. & Jensen, E. (2016). Education on biodiversity of the Polar Regions. In Castro, P., Azeiteiro, U.M., Bacelar Nicolau, P., Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M. Biodiversity’s and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the series Umweltbildung, Umweltkommunikation und Nachhaltigkeit - Environmental Education, Communication and Sustainability, Peter Lang. Peter Lang GmbH International Academic PublishersFrankfurt am Main.: 43-56 SBN: 978-3-319- 32317-6 (Book chapter)
Xavier, J. C. & Peck, L. (2015). Life beyond the ice. In Exploring the Last Continent, Liggett, D., Storey, B., Cook, Y., Meduna, V. (ed), Springer International Publishing, Switzerland: 229-252 ISBN 978-3-319-18947-5 (Book chapter)
Gutt J, Constable A, Cummings V, Hosie G, McIntyre T, Mintenbeck K, Murray A, Peck L, Ropert-Coudert Y, Saba GK, Schofield O, Schloss I, Stefels J, Takahashi K (2016) Vulnerability of Southern Ocean biota to climate change. Information Summary. Antarctic Environment Portal. (https://www.environments.aq/information -summaries/vulnerability-of-southern-ocean-biota-to-climate-change/)
Hays GC, Ferreira LC, Sequeira AMM, Meekan MG, Duarte CM, Bailey H, Bailleul F, Bowen WD, Caley MJ, Costa DP, EguÃluz VM, Fossette S, Friedlaender AS, Gales N, Gleiss AC, Gunn J, Harcourt R, Hazen EL, Heithaus MR, Heupel M, Holland K, Horning M, Jonsen I, Kooyman GL, Lowe CG, Madsen PT, Marsh H, Phillips RA, Righton D, Ropert-Coudert Y, Sato K, Shaffer SA, Simpfendorfer CA, Sims DW, Skomal G, Takahashi A, Trathan PN Wikelski M, Womble JN, Thums M (2016) Key questions in marine megafauna movement ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31(6): 463- 475
Raymond B, Lea MA, Patterson T, Andrews-Goff V, Sharples R, Charrassin J-B, Cottin M, Emmerson L, Gales N, Gales R, Goldsworthy S, Harcourt R, Kato A, Kirkwood R, Lawton K, Ropert-Coudert Y,Southwell C, van den Hoff J, Wienecke B, Woehler EJ, Wotherspoon S, Hindell MA (2015) Important marine habitat off East Antarctica revealed by two decades of multi-species predator tracking. Ecography 38: 121-129
Data from EGBAMM will be added as they become available.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Penguiness Book 2 (records of diving of air-breathing vertebrates) is at http://penguinessbook.scarmarbin.be/
Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean is at: http://atlas.biodiversity.aq/
PARTNERS
Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) is at http://www.acap.aq/
The leaders of the EG-BAMM group are:
Chief Officer | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
Deputy Chief Officer | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | University of Southampton, UK |
Secretary | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
ACHIEVEMENTS
Penguiness Book 2 (records of diving of air-breathing vertebrates) is at http://penguinessbook.scarmarbin.be/
Biogeographic Atlas of the Southern Ocean is at: http://atlas.biodiversity.aq/
PARTNERS
Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) is at http://www.acap.aq/
Data from EGBAMM will be added as they become available.
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