South African research in the Southern Ocean: New opportunities but serious challenges
- Treasure, Anne M, Moloney, Coleen, Bester, Marthán N, Findlay, Ken P, Best, Peter B, Cowan, Don A, De Bruyn, P J Nico, Dorrington, Rosemary A, Fagereng, Ake, Froneman, P William, Grantham, Geoff H, Hunt, Brian P V, Meiklejohn, Ian, Pakhomov, Evgeny A, Roychoudhury, Alakendra N, Ryan, Peter G, Smith, Valdon R, Chown, Steven L, Ansorge, Isabelle J
- Authors: Treasure, Anne M , Moloney, Coleen , Bester, Marthán N , Findlay, Ken P , Best, Peter B , Cowan, Don A , De Bruyn, P J Nico , Dorrington, Rosemary A , Fagereng, Ake , Froneman, P William , Grantham, Geoff H , Hunt, Brian P V , Meiklejohn, Ian , Pakhomov, Evgeny A , Roychoudhury, Alakendra N , Ryan, Peter G , Smith, Valdon R , Chown, Steven L , Ansorge, Isabelle J
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480584 , vital:78457 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC133146
- Description: South Africa has a long track record in Southern Ocean and Antarctic research and has recently invested considerable funds in acquiring new infrastructure for ongoing support of this research. This infrastructure includes a new base at Marion Island and a purpose-built ice capable research vessel, which greatly expand research opportunities. Despite this investment, South Africa's standing as a participant in this critical field is threatened by confusion, lack of funding, lack of consultation and lack of transparency. The research endeavour is presently bedevilled by political manoeuvring among groups with divergent interests that too often have little to do with science, while past and present contributors of research are excluded from discussions that aim to formulate research strategy. This state of affairs is detrimental to the country's aims of developing a leadership role in climate change and Antarctic research and squanders both financial and human capital.
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- Authors: Treasure, Anne M , Moloney, Coleen , Bester, Marthán N , Findlay, Ken P , Best, Peter B , Cowan, Don A , De Bruyn, P J Nico , Dorrington, Rosemary A , Fagereng, Ake , Froneman, P William , Grantham, Geoff H , Hunt, Brian P V , Meiklejohn, Ian , Pakhomov, Evgeny A , Roychoudhury, Alakendra N , Ryan, Peter G , Smith, Valdon R , Chown, Steven L , Ansorge, Isabelle J
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/480584 , vital:78457 , https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC133146
- Description: South Africa has a long track record in Southern Ocean and Antarctic research and has recently invested considerable funds in acquiring new infrastructure for ongoing support of this research. This infrastructure includes a new base at Marion Island and a purpose-built ice capable research vessel, which greatly expand research opportunities. Despite this investment, South Africa's standing as a participant in this critical field is threatened by confusion, lack of funding, lack of consultation and lack of transparency. The research endeavour is presently bedevilled by political manoeuvring among groups with divergent interests that too often have little to do with science, while past and present contributors of research are excluded from discussions that aim to formulate research strategy. This state of affairs is detrimental to the country's aims of developing a leadership role in climate change and Antarctic research and squanders both financial and human capital.
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Conserving pattern and process in the Southern Ocean: designing a Marine Protected Area for the Prince Edward Islands
- Lombard, Amanda T, Reyers, B, Schonegevel, L Y, Cooper, J, Smith-Adao, L B, Nel, D C, Froneman, P William, Ansorge, Isabelle J, Bester, Marthán N, Tosh, C A, Strauss, T, Akkers, T, Gon, Ofer, Leslie, Rob W, Chown, Steven L
- Authors: Lombard, Amanda T , Reyers, B , Schonegevel, L Y , Cooper, J , Smith-Adao, L B , Nel, D C , Froneman, P William , Ansorge, Isabelle J , Bester, Marthán N , Tosh, C A , Strauss, T , Akkers, T , Gon, Ofer , Leslie, Rob W , Chown, Steven L
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6881 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011637
- Description: South Africa is currently proclaiming a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of its sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands. The objectives of the MPA are to: 1) contribute to a national and global representative system of MPAs, 2) serve as a scientific reference point to inform future management, 3) contribute to the recovery of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), and 4) reduce the bird bycatch of the toothfish fishery, particularly of albatrosses and petrels. This study employs systematic conservation planning methods to delineate a MPA within the EEZ that will conserve biodiversity patterns and processes within sensible management boundaries, while minimizing conflict with the legal toothfish fishery. After collating all available distributional data on species, benthic habitats and ecosystem processes, we used C-Plan software to delineate a MPA with three management zones: four IUCN Category Ia reserves (13% of EEZ); two Conservation Zones (21% of EEZ); and three Category IV reserves (remainder of EEZ). Compromises between conservation target achievement and the area required by the MPA are apparent in the final reserve design. The proposed MPA boundaries are expected to change over time as new data become available and as impacts of climate change become more evident.
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- Authors: Lombard, Amanda T , Reyers, B , Schonegevel, L Y , Cooper, J , Smith-Adao, L B , Nel, D C , Froneman, P William , Ansorge, Isabelle J , Bester, Marthán N , Tosh, C A , Strauss, T , Akkers, T , Gon, Ofer , Leslie, Rob W , Chown, Steven L
- Date: 2007
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6881 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011637
- Description: South Africa is currently proclaiming a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of its sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands. The objectives of the MPA are to: 1) contribute to a national and global representative system of MPAs, 2) serve as a scientific reference point to inform future management, 3) contribute to the recovery of the Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides), and 4) reduce the bird bycatch of the toothfish fishery, particularly of albatrosses and petrels. This study employs systematic conservation planning methods to delineate a MPA within the EEZ that will conserve biodiversity patterns and processes within sensible management boundaries, while minimizing conflict with the legal toothfish fishery. After collating all available distributional data on species, benthic habitats and ecosystem processes, we used C-Plan software to delineate a MPA with three management zones: four IUCN Category Ia reserves (13% of EEZ); two Conservation Zones (21% of EEZ); and three Category IV reserves (remainder of EEZ). Compromises between conservation target achievement and the area required by the MPA are apparent in the final reserve design. The proposed MPA boundaries are expected to change over time as new data become available and as impacts of climate change become more evident.
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