Sentences with word «subantarctic»

When the rabbits were put on Enderby Island, it was an uninhabited subantarctic island of the Auckland Islands, and they were to serve as food for castaways.

The subduction of Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) moves heat into the upper ocean.

While elephant seals may come ashore in Antarctica occasionally to rest or to mate, they gather to breed in subantarctic locations.

Our analysis of the CFC - 12 data reveals a decrease in the age of subtropical subantarctic mode waters and an increase in the age of circumpolar deep waters, suggesting that the formation of the Antarctic ozone hole has caused large - scale coherent changes in the ventilation of the southern oceans.

To better understand what effect recent changes in the winds are having across the Southern Ocean, the first leg of the expedition was dedicated to working across the magnificent New Zealand subantarctic islands Campbell, Auckland and the Snares.

These findings suggest that there are two sources of low ∆ 14C waters that upwell at the Galapagos, Subantarctic Mode Water and shallow overturning water from the subpolar North Pacific.

Dr. Eric John Woehler is an expert on antarctic and subantarctic birds.

A successful case study is the tiny, subantarctic Campbell Island, where the government removed cattle and sheep before successfully eradicating rats in 2001, leading to the recovery of seabird populations and other endemic species that were on the brink of extinction.

Before it was sliced open by a shipping canal in 1914, the Isthmus of Panama united a land mass stretching from the Arctic Circle to subantarctic southern Patagonia.

Mercury contamination in the Antarctic and Subantarctic affects bird populations, reveal researchers from the Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé and from the «Littoral, Environnement et Sociétés» Laboratory (CNRS / Université de La Rochelle).

Mammals found on the island include: subantarctic fur seals, Antarctic fur seals, New Zealand fur seals and southern elephant seals — over 80,000 individuals of this species.

We will also keep a lookout for the rare Subantarctic Snipe.

They lie in the cool temperate or Subantarctic zone and are home to some of the most abundant and diverse wildlife on the planet.

Woehler, E.J. (1993) The distribution and abundance of Antarctic and Subantarctic penguins.

2nd Highest Subantarctic Glacier Advance Of Last 1,000 Years Occurred 50 Years Ago Yesterday we learned that a giant iceberg just split off from the Antarctic Peninsula.

The little explored subantarctic islands in the Southern Ocean have experienced some of the most significant warming.

Here, in a genetic approach to assessing past sea ice conditions, we use phylogeographical analyses of an ice - sensitive subantarctic macroalga to infer the extent of winter sea ice (WSI) during the LGM.

Whale numbers visiting historical habitats of sub-Antarctic regions show drastic differences in quantity for respective locations: well - recovering at New Zealand Subantarctic Islands while less successful at Macquarie Island.

The equatorial Pacific gets its nutrients from the Antarctic Ocean, carried on a water circulation called the «subantarctic mode water.»

For the first time, the researchers have carried out a ten - year population study of two seabird species: brown skuas living in the Kerguelen Islands (Subantarctic) and south polar skuas living in Adélie Land (Antarctica).

This is the first time that toxicological measurements have been combined with a population study carried out over such a long period in the Antarctic and Subantarctic.

The final transmission was received from deep in the Subantarctic.

When at the subantarctic or Antarctic coasts, the seals can also consume molluscs, crustaceans, nothothens, [26] lanternfish, [26] krill, cephalopods [27] or even algae.

One of the most isolated, least known and rugged of the Subantarctic Islands, landings are not permitted here, so we cruise along the coast looking for the endemic Antipodes Island and Reischek's Parakeet.

A subantarctic archipelago is making «huge news»: The New Zealand Herald reports there are officially no more mice on the country's Antipodes Islands, which once housed up to 200,000 of the rodents.

Landings at the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand are by permit only as administered by the Government of New Zealand.

Towards evening as we approach the islands we are closer to the Subantarctic and sub tropical convergence and we see a subtle change in the species composition.

Landings at the Subantarctic Islands are by permit only as administered by the Government of New Zealand.

Long recognised for their rich biodiversity, the Subantarctic islands lying to the south of New Zealand are World Heritage sites, afforded the highest conservation status and protection by both the Australian and New Zealand governments.

On this cruise aboard Le Lapérouse, PONANT invites you to discover the primitive beauty of the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand.

In Hawaii, reports were made on the interannual and decadal variability, the hydrological cycles of the Tropical Pacific Ocean, the West African and the South - Asian Monsoon, the subantarctic and Antarctic waters, the Arctic Ocean, North American climate changes, changes in surface solar radiation, thermohaline oceanic circulation, midlatitude storms, El - Nino and North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillations.

use the subantarctic islands as thermometers of climatic change by using trees, peats and lakes to explore the past

produce the first underwater surveys of life in the subantarctic islands and Commonwealth Bay