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1. Ecofunctional biodiversity of benthic crustacean taxocoenoses in the Southern Ocean [AMD_BE_CRUSTACEANS]
Description and evaluation of the role of biodiversity of the macrobenthos, in particular of the peracarid crustaceans, in the structure and functioning of the Antarctic coastal and shelf ecosystem. ...


2. Antarctic Peninsula Long Term Environmental Monitoring and Surveying [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00526]
LTMS will build on and extend BAS's past collection of long-term time-series of key environmental variables. Examples include the ongoing collection of the temperature record which shows that the ...


3. BIOFLAME-BIOPEARL: BIOdiversity dynamics: Phylogeography, Evolution And Radiation of Life [GB-NERC-BAS-PDC-00504]
Geological and biological sampling associated with recolonisation histories. BIOFLAME will study the DNA &fingerprints& of biological evolution to trace the way species adapt to environmental extremes ...


4. GIS analysis, biological samples (soil microorganism, invertebrate and plant), automatic weather station data and vegetation and invertebrate surveys to determine the terrestrial biocomplexity of the McMurdo Dry Valleys [K020_2008_2012_NZ_1]
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the largest area of snow-free land in Antarctica. Managers ability to promote and protect these areas would benefit if we knew the biodiversity present and what controls ...


5. Fungi isolates from physical samples (soil, rock, wood, foodstuff, air, artifacts, etc) from heroic era sites in the Ross Sea Region to determine fungal biodiversity [K021_1998_2012_NZ_1]
Physical samples of soil, rocks, wood, foodstuffs, air and artifacts were collected from six Heroic era sites in the Ross Sea Region over the period of January 1999 to January 2008. These sites included ...


6. Fungi isolates from physical samples (soil, rock, wood, foodstuff, air, artifacts, etc) from heroic era sites in the Ross Sea Region to determine fungal biodiversity [K021_1998_2011_NZ_1]
Physical samples of soil, rocks, wood, foodstuffs, air and artefacts were collected from six Heroic era sites in the Ross Sea Region over the period of January 1999 to January 2008. These sites included ...


7. Southern Ocean geomorphology spatial data layers [ANTABIF_Geomorphology]
This set of GIS shapefiles describe seafloor geomorphic features mapped from bathymetric analysis, with features cross-checked from available seismic lines. The mapping is based on GEBCO contours, ...


8. Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation [CAML_Project_Archive.Media_Education_Outreach]   PARENT DIF
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation ...


9. Australia's Census of Antarctic Marine Life project [ASAC_2792]   CHILD DIFs
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2792 See the link below for public details on this project. Australia's Census of Antarctic Marine Life project. This project is a part of the international ...


10. Australia's Census of Antarctic Marine Life project - IYGPT Data collected on the CEAMARC cruise [CEAMARC-200708_V3_IYGPT]   PARENT DIF
Australia's Census of Antarctic Marine Life project. This project is a part of the international "Census of Antarctic Marine Life" (CAML) which was conducted during the International Polar Year. ...


11. Microbial diversity in the SRE4 marine biodegradation experiment [SRE4_tRFLP_all]   PARENT DIF
The diversity of the microbial communities in each treatment in the SRE4 in situ biodegradation experiment were examined using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism of the 16S rRNA gene. ...


12. Antarctic Biodiversity Database - Flora Observations [Flora1]
The Antarctic Biodiversity database is a database including collection records of plants collected from the Antarctic, subantarctic islands and other areas around the world. You can search for collections ...


13. Survey of invertebrates, lichen, mosses and soil microbiology in the Shackleton, Scott and Beardmore Glacier regions. [K020_2009_2010_NZ_1]
A survey of biodiversity in the Central and Southern Transantarctic mountains including: Invertebrates (Collembola, Acari, Nematoda, Tardigrada, Rotifera); Lichens, Mosses, and Soil microbiology. ...


14. Diversity and evolution of Australian Antarctic sea spiders: Understanding species diversification and distribution patterns [ASAC_3010]
Metadata record for data from AAS (ASAC) project 3010. Public Pycnogonids are primitive, bizarre arthropods. Found worldwide, Antarctic pycnogonids are the most diverse, abundant, and include some ...


15. Direct Molecular Analysis of Antarctica and Southern Ocean Microbial Communities [ASAC_867]
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 867 See the link below for public details on this project. Dataset Sea-ice bacteria data are associated with ASAC_1012 and included there Data for bacteria ...


16. Exopolysaccharides from Antarctic bacteria [ASAC_2348]
Exopolysaccharide (EPS) is complex sugar made by many microbes in the Antarctic marine environment. This project seeks to understand the ecological role of microbial EPS in the Southern Ocean, where ...


17. The Geochemistry, Ecology and Taxonomy of Antarctic Methanogenic Bacteria [ASAC_264]
The Antarctic methanogen Methanococcoides burtonii contained only diether phospholipids. These membrane components were analysed by gas chromatography and gas chromatography mass spectrometry. Of ...


18. Morphology, Taxonomy and Ecology of Terrestrial Antarctic Ciliates and Testaceans (Protozoa) [ASAC_565]
Project 565: The database provides a list of species of ciliates and testate amoebae (Protozoa: Ciliophora; Testacea) recorded in various edaphic habitats, e.g., mineral soils (fellfield), ornithogenic ...


19. Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation [CAML_Project_Archive.Documents]   PARENT DIF
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation ...


20. Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation [CAML_Project_Archive.Meetings]   PARENT DIF
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation ...


21. Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation [CAML_Project_Archive.Progress_Updates]   PARENT DIF
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation ...


22. Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation [CAML_Project_Archive.Ships]   PARENT DIF
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation ...


23. Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation [CAML_Project_Archive]   CHILD DIFs
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation ...


24. Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation [CAML_Project_Archive.CAML_South_America]   PARENT DIF
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation ...


25. Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation [CAML_Project_Archive.CAML_DNA_Barcoding]   PARENT DIF
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation ...


26. Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation [CAML_Project_Archive.Data_Synthesis]   PARENT DIF
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation ...


27. Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Archive of Project Documentation [CAML_Project_Archive.Sampling_Protocols]   PARENT DIF
The Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML) Project Archive is a collection of scanned documents, maps, videos, and other related material that comprise the organisation and management documentation ...


28. Craig Smith UHM FOODBANCS 1 Megafauna data [scarmarbin_2406]
Data come from otter trawl collections and video surveys made of benthic megafauna during the FOODBANCS 1 project with from five cruises to the West Antarctic Peninsula shelf from 1999-2001.


29. Craig Smith UHM NHM FOODBANCS 1 Macrofaunal Polychaete data [scarmarbin_2408]
Data for benthic polchaetes (retained on a 300 micrometer seive) collected in megacores from the FOODBANCS 1 project. During FOODBANCS 1, megacore samples were collected and sorted during five cruises ...


30. Craig Smith UHM USP FOODBANCS 1 Macrofauna data [scarmarbin_2407]
Data for benthic macrofauna (retained on a 300 micrometer seive) collected in box cores from the FOODBANCS 1 project. During FOODBANCS 1, box core samples were collected and sorted during five cruises ...


31. Asteroids from French subantarctic islands: records from the Marion Dufresne MD03 expeditions [scarmarbin_1784]
This dataset is a digital version of the species and stations lists of seastars (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) collected during the Marion Dufresne MD03 expedition in the Kerguelen islands.


32. Fungi isolates from physical samples (soil, rock, wood, foodstuff, air, artifacts, etc) from heroic era sites in the Ross Sea Region to determine fungal biodiversity [K021_1998_2008_NZ_1]
Physical samples of soil, rocks, wood, foodstuffs, air and artefacts were collected from six Heroic era sites in the Ross Sea Region over the period of January 1999 to January 2008. These sites included ...


33. MARINE INVERTEBRATE FROM ARGENTINA, URUGUAY AND CHILE [Invertebrate_Argentina]
Data on invertebrate taxa were obtained from available literature, technical reports, databases, museum data collections and from the NaGISA project in the case of Golfo Nuevo rocky shore invertebrates. ...


34. SEAWEED RECORDS [Algae_Argentina]
Seaweeds inventory includes the species recorded on the coast of Uruguay and Argentina. These records combine data obtained from scientific papers, technical reports, databases and personal communications ...


35. ICE Protected Area Biological Inventory Database [UC_ICE_biologicalinventory]
The ICE Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas provide a global information system of documented inventories of plants and animals reported to occur on the world's protected ...


36. GIS analysis, biological samples (soil microorganism, invertebrate and plant), automatic weather station data and vegetation and invertebrate surveys to determine the terrestrial biocomplexity of the McMurdo Dry Valleys [K020_2008_2009_NZ_1]
The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the largest area of snow-free land in Antarctica. Managers ability to promote and protect these areas would benefit if we knew the biodiversity present and what controls ...


37. Biology of lichen communities in Antarctica. [CNDA-ESP_LIQ_PAD]   CHILD DIFs
In English: This dataset contains information on the registered data on studies of the biology of lichen communities in Antarctica. This dataset is also the parent record ...


38. Sensitivity to temperature and radiation and irradiance along latitudinal and altitudinal gradients [CNDA-ESP_ANT99-0680_LIQ_07]   PARENT DIF
In English: This dataset contains information on the ECOTER project, carrying out an integrated study of Antarctic vegetation communities, including mosses, lichens and vascular ...


39. terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of 16S rRNA and alkane-monooxygenase genes in Macquarie Island Soils [MI08_trflp]
Samples were collected on Macquarie Island from three sites: the main powerhouse, the fuel farm and a reference site on the isthmus. The microbial communities in these samples were analysed by terminal-restriction ...


40. Meiobenthic biodiversity and fluxes within the Antarctic biogeochemical environment [AMD_BE_BIOGEOCHEM]
The purpose of this project is to determine the role of the coastal zone and the deep sea ecosystems in the productivity and energy fluxes in the Southern Ocean. In the Antarctic, ...


41. Collections data on ecology of bottom animal of the Southern ocean [scarmarbin_1094]   PARENT DIF
Collections data on ecology of bottom animal of the Southern ocean, compiled by Igor Smirnov, Anastasija Vasiljeva, Tatjana Konina, from the Zoological Institute, St Petersburg, Russia.


42. South American Antarctic Marine Biodiversity Literature [scarmarbin_1783]   PARENT DIF
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and more recently Venezuela have done marine biological work in the Antarctica, mainly around the Antarctic Peninsula and Drake Passage. A compilation ...


43. Ecological survey of the birds, algae, lichen, fungi, and invertebrates on ice free areas of the Edward VII Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land [K053_1987_1988_NZ_3]
A 5-6 week remote field expedition was carried out to visit all rock outcrops in the Edward VII Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land to make a general biological survey of the region and assemble good plant ...


44. Cold adaptation and functionality of the Antarctic Coastal Benthic Zones [ASAC_1165]
Antarctic sediments and sea-ice are important regulators in global biogeochemical and atmospheric cycles. These ecosystems contain a diverse range of bacteria whose biogeochemical roles remains largely ...


45. ANTXXIII-8 Birds and Mammals Observations [SCAR-MarBIN] [scarmarbin_ANTXXIII8TP]   PARENT DIF
This dataset is a compilation of observation recorded by Henri Robert (Royal Belgian Instiute of Natural Sciences) and Gauthier Chapelle (International Polar Foundation) during the ANTXXIII-8 ...


46. Response of the Southern Ocean global ecosystem to physical and trophic constraints [AMD_BE_SO_ECOSYSTEM]
[from "http://www.belspo.be/belspo/antar/orp/b21-23_uk.stm"] The research consists of a multidisciplinary study of the biodiversity and productivity of the global ecosystem of the Southern Ocean ...


47. Antarctic Biodiversity Database [antarctic_biodiversity_db]
The biodiversity database is planned to be a reference on Antarctic and subantarctic flora and fauna collated by the Regional Sensitivity to Climate Change (RiSCC) group and developed by the Australian ...


48. Macquarie Island Baseline Invertebrate Survey 1994 [KFDBAM_ANU]
Records from 69 sites, covering the whole island. Sites stratified by topography (2 classes: slopes or drainage lines), altitude (4 classes: 0-100 m, 100-200 m, 200-300 m, 300m+), vegetation type ...


49. Admiralty Bay Benthos Biodiversity Database [SCAR-MarBIN] [scarmarbin_ABBED]   CHILD DIFs   PARENT DIF
Admiralty Bay is one of the best studied sites in the maritime Antarctic. The first benthos data has been recorded in 1906 and knowledge is constantly gained by the research activities of permanent ...


50. Pelagic Diversity of the Austral Ocean [SCAR-MarBIN] [scarmarbin_PELAGANT]   PARENT DIF
The PELAGANT project is an interdisciplinary study of the key components of the Austral Ocean Pelagic Ecosystem and deals with the criteria for the appearance, maintenance, and modification of biodiversity. ...


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