Soft sediment assemblages at Casey Station: (core samples: Nov 1998 - Jan 1999)

A survey of macrobenthic assemblages in soft-sediments was done at Casey Station, East Antarctica. Samples were taken by divers using hand-held corers (core size - 10 cm diameter by 10 cm deep). This was the final component of a large nested sampling survey extending over a three year periods with samples taken in three summers and one winter period.

The aims were: 1) To examine spatial variation at several scales in these assemblages; 2) To determine if there were differences between potentially impacted areas and control areas; 3) To determine the level of replication, taxonomic resolution and data transformation that are appropriate to studies of human impacts in Antarctic soft-sediment assemblages. Cores were collected by divers in a hierarchical, spatially nested design incorporating 4 scales: Locations (1000s of metres apart), Sites (100s of metres), Plots (10s of metres) and among replicates within plots (~1 metre). This data set consists of 48 core samples from three locations, O'Brien Bay, Sparkes Bay and Wilkes. Samples are sorted mainly to species.


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Location

Site/Rep

Species

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Soft sediment assemblages at Casey Station: (core samples: Nov 1998 - Jan 1999)
Date (Publication)
2003-05-07
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:10.4225/15/55F7818C8EC56

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_benthic_survey4

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
  • Oceans
  • Transportation

Extent

N
S
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1998-11-30 1999-01-28
Title
Human impacts and assemblages in marine soft-sediments at Casey Station, Antarctica
Date (Publication)
2001

Author

Stark J. S.

Publisher

University of New England
Name
PhD Thesis
Title
Human impacts in Antarctic marine soft-sediment assemblages: correlations between multivariate biological patterns and environmental variables
Date (Publication)
2003
Citation identifier
56

Citation identifier
doi:10.1016/S0272-7714(02)00291-3

Author

Stark J. S., Riddle M. J., Snape I. and Scouller R. C.
Name
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Issue identification
3-4
Page
717-734
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
  • ASSEMBLAGE
  • COMMUNITY
  • BENTHIC
  • CORE SAMPLES
  • LOCATION
  • HUMAN IMPACT
  • MACROBENTHOS
  • SITE/REP
  • POLLUTION
  • SPECIES
  • SPATIAL VARIATION
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • CORING DEVICES
  • MICROSCOPES
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FIELD INVESTIGATION
  • FIELD SURVEYS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > East Antarctica
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Casey Station
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > O'Brien Bay
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Wilkes
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Sparkes Bay
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

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Linkage
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Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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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_benthic_survey4 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
2003-05-07T00:00:00
Units of distribution
kb
Transfer size
10
Distribution format
  • excel

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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
2015-09-15 - record updated by Dave Connell. Basic updates. 2019-03-19 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/ASAC_2201_Casey_benthic_survey4

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
20e3cf81-9cdc-4e8f-9546-88253290d877

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2019-03-19T11:32:16

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_benthic_survey4

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2001-05-02T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2019-03-19

Metadata standard

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

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