The intertidal and shallow subtidal food web of sub-antarctic Marion Island

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dc.contributor.advisorBranch, George Men_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBlankley, William Oliveren_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-11T20:56:48Z
dc.date.available2014-12-11T20:56:48Z
dc.date.issued1982en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 126-128.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island group, consisting of Marion Island and Prince Edward Island (Fig. 1), was annexed by South Africa in 1947-1948 and subsequently declared a nature reserve. Isolated oceanic islands have always presented interesting opportunities for biological research on both the marine mammals and birds which use them for breeding purposes and the resident, often specially adapted, fauna and flora which colonise them. The ice-capped, windy and wet Marion and Prince Edward Islands are young volcanic islands, less than 300000 years old, and house a considerably less diverse biota than the much older Crozet and Kerguelen sub-Antarctic Archipelagos (Van Zinderen Bakker, 1971). In view of the relative simplicity, small size and isolation of the Marion Island ecosystem one of the major goals of the South African Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SASCAR) has been to provide a comprehensive model describing the functioning of the system. Thus since the start of official biological research in 1965 many studies have been undertaken in the fields of ornithology, plant ecology, mammalogy and limnology. Marine biological research has been relatively neglected and at the outset of the present project the only work available on the Marion Island littoral fauna, apart from various taxonomic reports, was that of De Villiers (1976) who described species composition and zonation patterns of the shores. The present study, along with Mr Peter Haxen's research on the inshore macro-algae, was aimed at bridging the gap in our knowledge of the intertidal and shallow subtidal communities of Marion Island.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBlankley, W. O. (1982). <i>The intertidal and shallow subtidal food web of sub-antarctic Marion Island</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Biological Sciences. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9970en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBlankley, William Oliver. <i>"The intertidal and shallow subtidal food web of sub-antarctic Marion Island."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Biological Sciences, 1982. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9970en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBlankley, W. 1982. The intertidal and shallow subtidal food web of sub-antarctic Marion Island. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Blankley, William Oliver AB - The sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Island group, consisting of Marion Island and Prince Edward Island (Fig. 1), was annexed by South Africa in 1947-1948 and subsequently declared a nature reserve. Isolated oceanic islands have always presented interesting opportunities for biological research on both the marine mammals and birds which use them for breeding purposes and the resident, often specially adapted, fauna and flora which colonise them. The ice-capped, windy and wet Marion and Prince Edward Islands are young volcanic islands, less than 300000 years old, and house a considerably less diverse biota than the much older Crozet and Kerguelen sub-Antarctic Archipelagos (Van Zinderen Bakker, 1971). In view of the relative simplicity, small size and isolation of the Marion Island ecosystem one of the major goals of the South African Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SASCAR) has been to provide a comprehensive model describing the functioning of the system. Thus since the start of official biological research in 1965 many studies have been undertaken in the fields of ornithology, plant ecology, mammalogy and limnology. Marine biological research has been relatively neglected and at the outset of the present project the only work available on the Marion Island littoral fauna, apart from various taxonomic reports, was that of De Villiers (1976) who described species composition and zonation patterns of the shores. The present study, along with Mr Peter Haxen's research on the inshore macro-algae, was aimed at bridging the gap in our knowledge of the intertidal and shallow subtidal communities of Marion Island. DA - 1982 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1982 T1 - The intertidal and shallow subtidal food web of sub-antarctic Marion Island TI - The intertidal and shallow subtidal food web of sub-antarctic Marion Island UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9970 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBlankley WO. The intertidal and shallow subtidal food web of sub-antarctic Marion Island. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Science ,Department of Biological Sciences, 1982 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9970en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Biological Sciencesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Scienceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherZoologyen_ZA
dc.titleThe intertidal and shallow subtidal food web of sub-antarctic Marion Islanden_ZA
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