A manipulative field experiment examining the effect of contaminated sediment on the recruitment of soft-sediment infauna (Mar 1998 - Feb 1999).

The effect of location and sediment contamination on recruitment of soft-sediment assemblages were examined in field experiment at Casey Station, East Antarctica. Four locations were used, a polluted bay adjacent to an old disused tip site (Brown Bay), a bay adjacent to the Casey Station sewage outfall, and two undisturbed control locations in O'Brien Bay. At each location two types of defaunated sediment (polluted and control) were placed 12 - 18 m, in experimental trays. Half of the experimental sediments were left in place over the Austral winter, from March - November, and the remaining sediments were collected after a total of one year, in February 1999.


There were large differences in recruitment between the two locations and significant differences between the polluted and control sediment. There were not only differences in abundance of taxa and assemblage structure but also in spatial variability and variability of populations of certain taxa, with recruitment to the control locations more variable than polluted locations, and recruitment in the control sediment more variable than the polluted sediment. The majority of fauna recruiting to the experiment were highly motile colonizing species with non-pelagic lecithotrophic larvae, usually brooded and released as dispersing juveniles, such as gammarids, tanaids, isopods and gastropods.


A total of 64 recruitment samples were collected after 9 months and 52 samples after one year. Samples were sieved at 500 micro m and sorted mainly to species.


Samples are rows in data sheet. Site codes include place name (e.g. BB2) and experimental treatment (e.g. C1 - control 1). See accompanying sheet for full details of codes, including species names. Sediment chemistry data are means (and standard errors) for each treatment (averaged over 2 trays).


Also links to ASAC 1100.


The fields in this dataset are:


Species

Site

Sample

Abundance

Toxicity

Arsenic

Cadmium

Copper

Lead

Silver

Zinc

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
A manipulative field experiment examining the effect of contaminated sediment on the recruitment of soft-sediment infauna (Mar 1998 - Feb 1999).
Date (Publication)
2017-09-07
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.4225/15/59b0c2ee0485b

Originator

Riddle, M.J. and Stark, J.S.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

RIDDLE, MARTIN J.
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Principal investigator

STARK, JONATHAN SEAN
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

STARK, JONATHAN SEAN
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2201_Casey_SRE2

Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Spatial resolution

Vertical sampling distance
1
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Biota
  • Transportation
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1998-02-11 1999-02-11

Extent

Description
Vertical Extent - Depth

Vertical element

Minimum value
12
Maximum value
25
Identifier
urn:x-ogc:def:cs:EPSG:6498
Name
Vertical CS. Axis: depth (D). Orientation: down. UoM: m.
Identifier
urn:x-ogc:def:axis:EPSG:113
Name
depth
Title
Influence of an Antarctic waste dump on recruitment to near-shore marine soft-sediment assemblages
Date (Publication)
2004
Citation identifier
276

Citation identifier
doi:10.3354/meps 276053

Author

Stark, J. S., M. J. Riddle, and S. D. A. Smith.
Name
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Page
53-70
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > CONTAMINANT LEVELS/SPILLS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > HEAVY METALS CONCENTRATION
  • EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS > SEWAGE DISPOSAL
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > MARINE ENVIRONMENT MONITORING > MARINE OBSTRUCTIONS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ARTHROPODS > CRUSTACEANS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > ECHINODERMS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > MOLLUSKS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES > SEGMENTED WORMS (ANNELIDS)
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > BENTHIC
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAMICS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > SPECIES DOMINANCE INDICES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
Keywords
  • ABUNDANCE
  • ANTARCTICA
  • ASSEMBLAGE
  • ARSENIC
  • BENTHIC
  • CADMIUM
  • COMMUNITY
  • CONTAMINATION
  • COPPER
  • FIELD EXPERIMENT
  • HEAVY METALS
  • HUMAN IMPACT
  • LEAD
  • MACROBENTHOS
  • POLLUTION
  • RECOLONISATION
  • RECRUITMENT
  • SAMPLE
  • SILVER
  • SITE
  • SPECIES
  • TOXICITY
  • ZINC
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • MICROSCOPES
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FIELD INVESTIGATION
  • FIELD SURVEYS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SOOS
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > East Antarctica
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Casey Station
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Brown Bay
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > O'Brien Bay
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Shannon Bay
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Resource constraints

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This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

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Resource constraints

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Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
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Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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Use constraints
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Other constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_2201_Casey_SRE2 when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
free
Planned available datetime
2017-09-07T00:00:00
Units of distribution
kb
Transfer size
13
Distribution format
  • excel

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Download point for the data

OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

Public information for ASAC project 2201

OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

Public information for ASAC project 1100

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
Gammarid, Isopod, gastropod faunas identified at the Australian Museum. Remaining faunas identified by J. Stark.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2015-09-14 - record updated by Dave Connell. Basic updates. 2017-09-07 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data. 2019-04-04 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/ASAC_2201_Casey_SRE2

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

STARK, JONATHAN SEAN
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
f6f21b45-1b6f-41d2-9875-1951145b95d6

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2019-04-04T11:12:45

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2201_Casey_SRE2

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2001-05-02T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2019-04-04

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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