Project

2948

Chief Investigator

STARK, Dr Jonathan (Jonny) - Australian Antarctic Division

Title

TRENZ: The TRophic Ecology of the antarctic Nearshore Zone: local and global constraints on patterns and processes


Project aims

Understanding the structure and function of food webs is essential to interpreting and understanding the responses of Antarctic coastal ecosystems to human disturbance. Coastal marine benthic communities in Antarctica may act as useful warning sentinels by providing evidence of the effects of local human activities and of the effects of global climate change and ultimately lead to better management of human imapacts and protection of the Antarctic environment.

Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature

Clark G.F., Stark J.S., Perrett L.A., Hill N.A., Johnston E.L. (2010) Algal canopy as a proxy for the disturbance history of understorey communities in East Antarctica, Polar Biology 10pp; [Ref: 14268]

Raymond B., Marshall M., Nevitt G., Gillies C.L., van den Hoff J., Stark J.S., Losekoot M., Woehler E.J., Constable A.J. (2011) A Southern Ocean dietary database, Ecology 92(5). 1188; [Ref: 14458]

Powell S.M., Palmer A.S., Johnstone G.J., Snape I., Stark J.S., Riddle M.J. (2012) Benthic mats in Antarctica: biophysical coupling of sea-bed hypoxia and sediment communities, Polar Biology 35(1). 107-116; [Ref: 14491]

Baird H.P., Miller K.J., Stark J.S. (2011) Evidence of hidden biodiversity, ongoing speciation and diverse patterns of genetic structure in giant Antarctic amphipods, Molecular Ecology 20. 3439-3454; [Ref: 14539]

Gillies C.L., Stark J.S., Johnstone G.J., Smith S.D.A. (2012) Carbon flow and trophic structure of an Antarctic coastal benthic community as determined by ä 13C and ä 15N, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 97. 44-57; [Ref: 14689]

Baird H.P., Miller K.J., Stark J.S. (2012) Genetic Population Structure in the Antarctic Benthos: Insights from the Widespread Amphipod, Orchomenella franklini, PLoS ONE 7(3). e34363; [Ref: 14736]

Gillies C.L., Stark J.S., Smith S.D.A. (2012) Small-scale spatial variation of ä 13C and ä 15N isotopes in Antarctic carbon sources and consumers, Polar Biology 35(6). 813-827; [Ref: 14941]

Baird H.P., Stark J.S. (2013) Population dynamics of the ubiquitous Antarctic benthic amphipod Orchomenella franklini and its vulnerability to environmental change, Polar Biology 36(2). 155-167; [Ref: 14942]

Gillies C.L., Stark J.S., Johnstone G.J., Smith S.D.A. (2013) Establishing a food web model for coastal Antarctic benthic communities: a case study from the Vestfold Hills, Marine Ecology Progress Series 478. 27-41; [Ref: 14943]

Clark G.F., Stark J.S., Johnston E.L., Runcie J.W., Goldsworthy P.M., Raymond B., Riddle M.J. (2013) Light-driven tipping points in polar ecosystems, Global Change Biology 19(12). 3749-3761; [Ref: 15188]

Baird H.P., Stark J.S. (2014) Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the distribution of an Antarctic amphipod and relationship with the sediment, Marine Ecology Progress Series 502. 169-183; [Ref: 15204]

Wild S., McLagan D., Schlabach M., Bossi R., Hawker D., Cropp R., King C.K., Stark J.S., Mondon J., Bengtson Nash S. (2015) An Antarctic Research Station as a Source of Brominated and Perfluorinated Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Local Environment, Environmental Science and Technology 49(1). 103-112; [Ref: 15441]

Bates M.L., Bengtson Nash S.M., Hawker D.W., Norbury J., Stark J.S., Cropp R. (2015) Construction of a trophically complex near-shore Antarctic food web model using the Conservative Normal framework with structural coexistence, Journal of Marine Systems 145. 1-14; [Ref: 15443]

Stark J. S., Johnstone G.J., King, C., Raymond T., Rutter A., Stark S.C., Townsend A.T. (2023) Contamination of the marine environment by Antarctic research stations: Monitoring marine pollution at Casey station from 1997 to 2015, PLoS ONE 18(8). e0288485; [Ref: 16896]

Category 3: Abstract

Dunshea G., Caspar R., Gales N., Hindell M., Johnstone G., Stark J.S., Wells R., Jarman S. (2011) DNA-based diet estimation techniques: From toothed whales to Antarctic fish and snails, in: Australian Marine Sciences Association 48th Annual Conference, 3-7 July 2011 .; [Ref: 14944]

Gillies C.L., Stark J.S., Johnstone G.J., Smith S.D.A. (2012) Towards a stable isotope (ä 13C, ä 15N) food web model for coastal Antarctic benthic communities: a case study from the Vestfold Hills, Australian Marine Sciences Association and New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Joint Conference (AMSA-NZMSS), Hobart, Tasmania, 1-5 July 2012 .; [Ref: 14945]

Stark J.S., Riddle M.J. (2012) Monitoring Coastal Ecosystems in Antarctica, Australian Marine Sciences Association and New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Joint Conference (AMSA-NZMSS), Hobart, Tasmania, 1-5 July 2012 .; [Ref: 14946]

Stark J.S., O'Brien P.E., Johnstone G.J., Dunshea G., Barnes P. (2010) Coastal benthic habitats and communities of the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica, SCAR 4th Open Science Conference, Buenos Aires, August 2010 .; [Ref: 14288]

Gillies G.L., Stark J.S., Smith S.D.A. (2009) Spatial variation in carbon (δ 13c) and nitrogen (δ 15n) isotopes in Antarctic benthic fauna and its impact on the elucidation of a nearshore food web, Xth SCAR International Biology Symposium, Sapporo, Japan, July 26-31, 2009 .; [Ref: 14435]

Category 3: Conference paper

Gillies C.L., Stark J.S., Smith S.D.A. (2008) Trophic ecology of Antarctic nearshore marine ecosystems (Casey Station) with relation to climate change and local impacts, AMSA/NZMSS 2008 Joint conference: Human impacts and functioning ecosystems, Christchurch, New Zealand .; [Ref: 13420]

Category 3: Verbal presentation

Baird H. P., Miller K., Stark J.S, Virtue P. (2010) Small and large-scale genetic connectivity in Antarctic benthic amphipods, SCAR 4th Open Science Conference, Buenos Aires, August 2010 .; [Ref: 14267]

Baird H.P., Miller K.J., Stark J.S., Virtue P. (2012) Genetic Connectivity and Diversity of Antarctic Benthic Amphipods, Australian Marine Sciences Association Conference, 1-5 July 2012, Hobart, Tasmania .; [Ref: 14774]

Category 4: Popular articles

Stark J.S. (2012) Sewage in Antarctica: A drop in a frozen ocean?, Issues 100. 28-33; [Ref: 14804]