Molecular studies of the origins and dispersal patterns of invertebrates in the Antarctic and subantarctic

Four excel spreadsheets are also available in the download file - spreadsheets for amphipods, collembola, flatworms and isopods. Some general comments about the spreadsheets:

• FID and Id columns are those that are automatically generated when creating a layer in ArcGis.
• Counts of all organisms in samples has not yet been completed. Penny Greenslade will be attending to this in the future. However, some count numbers are present on the isopod and amphipod sheets - this refers to isopods and amphipods observed during field work.
• The tag column is a standard column for naming any points in the NSW government system. Taken from the 2009-2010 Progress Report: Public summary of the season progress: Progress on this project has been excellent in its first year. The timely appointment of a new PhD student in Oct 2009 (funded by The University of Adelaide) was fortunate and he went south with one assistant in Dec 2009. We collected all the soil samples that had been planned for the 2009/2010 season. Collections were focused on the Vestfold Hills, Larsemann Hills, Hop Island, Mather Peninsula, Sansom Island where the majority of time was spent, with opportunistic sampling at Casey (ASMA) and Mawson (Framnes) whilst in transit on the Aurora Australis. Once we obtain the samples in Adelaide (arrived on V4) which were returned to Hobart frozen then the processing will commence to retrieve the invertebrates. The 2009-2010 data are accompanied by a spreadsheet detailing all column headings.