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The Vestfold Hills Special Issue Antarctic Science

Editorial team

John van den Hoff (Editor, Australian Antarctic Division) is a seal biologist and natural historian with wide interests in the intersection of population biology, ecology, climate and human footprint.

Dana M Bergstrom (Australian Antarctic Division) is a terrestrial ecologist with interests in biodiversity, climate change and human footprint and non-native species.

Cath King (Australian Antarctic Division) is an environmental ecotoxicologist with knowledge and experience of both marine and terrestrial ecosystems.

Scott Carpentier (Australian Bureau of Meteorology) is a meteorologist specialising in Antarctic climate and weather.

Summary

Flanked by the Antarctic ice plateau on one side and Prydz Bay on the other, the Vestfold Hills is ~ 400 km2 of ice-free continental Antarctica, dotted with fresh and saline lakes, and indented by marine fjords and embayments. The flora, fauna and climate of is truly coastal Antarctic oasis have been the subject of much scientific interest in the recent years. This special volume is open to any contributions from any discipline with a main focus on the Vestfold Hills and the surrounding nearshore environment. 

Potential papers for Volume

Area

Topic

Authors

All

Scene setting - The  Vestfold Hill in modern context

DM Bergstrom, J van den Hoff, C King C Brown et al

 

 

 

Marine

The benthic marine ecosystems of the Vestfold Hills

 

J Stark et al

Marine

The polychaete reefs of Ellis Fjord in the Vestfold Hills

 

J Stark et al

Soil

Tracing boundaries in Eastern Antarctica: Multi-scale drivers of soil microbial communities across the Vestfold Hills

 

E Zhang, P Czechowski, SY Wong, D S. Chelliah, M Raven, M M. Tanaka, A Terauds, B C. Ferrari

Vegetation

Distribution of terrestrial vegetation in the Vestfold Hills

D Bergstrom, P Virtue, L Clarke, T Travers, C King K Brown, A Terauds et al

Vegetation

Vestfold Hills sublithic microbial communities and their relation to environmental gradients

L Clarke D Bergstrom, et al

Vegetation

Genetic diversity of Vestfold Hills moss populations

D Bergstrom, L Clarke et al

Microinvertebrates/vegetation

Taxonomy and distribution of invertebrates of mosses in the Vestfold Hills

 

J Gibson, C King, K Brown, D Bergstrom, P Virtue, et al

Lakes

Major cation chemistry of lakes of the Vestfold Hills

 

J Gibson, S Stark, C King, K Brown et al

Lakes

Taxonomy and distribution of lacustrine invertebrates in the Vestfold Hills (incl physico-chemical data eDNA data)

J Gibson, L Clarke, K Brown, C King, M Stevens et al

Lakes/Soil

Abiotic factors influencing soil invertebrate distributions - perhaps include predictive modelling across drainage lines & elevation etc

J Gibson, C King, K Brown et al

Lakes/Soil

Taxonomy of the genus Eudorylaimus in the Vestfold Hills

J Gibson, L Clarke, K Brown, C King et al

Lakes/Soil

Soil/lake microinvertebrates - individual species taxonomic descriptions

J Gibson, M Borup, K Brown, C King et al

Seals

Long-term variation in the distribution, abundance and local movements of Weddell seals in the Vestfold Hills

John van den Hoff, et al

Seals

Long-term changes in the distribution and abundance of southern elephant seals in the Vestfold Hills, 1975 – 2020

John van den Hoff, et al

Seals

Vagrant pinnipeds in the Vestfold Hills

 

John van den Hoff, et al

Seals

Seasonal occurrence of leopard seals in the Vestfold Hills

John van den Hoff, et al

Seabirds

Possible title: Where do penguins go to moult?, a comparison across the East Antarctic environmental gradient

Emmerson, Southwell, Salton and others.

Seabirds

Do audio cues reflect Wilson storm petrel breeding patterns and the emergence and success of chicks?

 

Results from this work could potentially feed into considerations on future AAD planned infrastructure.

Salton, Emmerson, Southwell, and others.

Atmospheric

Detection of supercooled liquid water clouds with ceilometers

Adrien Guyot, Alain Protat, Simon Alexander, Andrew Klekociuk, Peter Kuma, Adrian McDonald

Atmospheric

Development and evaluation of in-flight aircraft icing index forecasts for Antarctica

Adrien Guyot, Alain Protat, Simon Alexander, Andrew Klekociuk, Adrian McDonald, Peter Kuma

Atmospheric

A climatology of high-wind and low-level wind shear at Davis, Antarctica

Adrien Guyot, Alain Protat, Simon Alexander, Andrew Klekociuk, Scott Carpentier, Rachel McInerney

Atmospheric

A 25-year climatology of in-flight aircraft icing risk indices for Davis, Antarctica

Adrien Guyot, Alain Protat, Simon Alexander, Andrew Klekociuk