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Trophic Ecology of the Antarctic Nearshore Zone

Entry ID: TRENZ

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Summary

Abstract: 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 ...

Purpose: This is the master DIF for the TRENZ project, within which there are several sub-projects and data sets.

Related URL

Link: VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE

Description: Public information for ASAC project 2948

Link: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Description: Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

	N: -66.28	S: -68.58	E: 110.52	W: 77.97

Min Depth: 2 M Max Depth: 90 M

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2006-11-01

Stop Date: 2010-03-31

Location Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > EASTERN HEMISPHERE

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE EXTENT

OCEANS > MARINE SEDIMENTS

ISO Topic Category

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

OCEANS

Platform

SHIPS

R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis

Quality See the Marine Science Support Data Quality Report at the Related URL section.

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See the Marine Science Support Data Quality Report at the Related URL section.

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Access Constraints Data are available on-line via the AADC web page.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=199596060 when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

MARINE

METEOROLOGY

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

Australian Antarctic Division

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia