RAATD

Meeting reports are below:

To share your data (Argos, GPS, GLS) with this project, contact Mark or Yan and help to determine the Ecologically Significant Areas of the Southern Ocean. Project outcomes include the possibility of publishing a synthesis paper in a high profile journal.

Selected publications from EG-BAMM:

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, Eguíluz 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

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Penguiness Book 2 (records of diving of air-breathing vertebrates) is at https://www.penguiness.net/
• 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/