The authorship and type localities of bird taxa (Aves) collected during the John Ross 1818 Expedition to the Baffin Bay, northwestern Atlantic Ocean

JIŘÍ MLÍKOVSKÝ

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3515.1.3

The authorship and type localities of bird taxa (Aves) collected during the John Ross 1818 Expedition to the Baffin Bay, northwestern Atlantic Ocean

Zootaxa ◽

10.11646/zootaxa.3515.1.3 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 3515 (1) ◽

pp. 51

Author(s):

JIŘÍ MLÍKOVSKÝ

Keyword(s):

Atlantic Ocean ◽

Baffin Bay ◽

Lagopus Mutus ◽

History Of ◽

John Ross

The 1818 expedition to the Baffin Bay, headed by Captain John Ross, resulted in the description of at least six bird speciesand four bird genera believed to be new to science. My review of publications relevant to the history of the expedition andto its ornithological outputs resulted in the correction of authorship of several of these names, as follows: The genus So-materia (Anatidae) dates from Leach (in Anonymous 1818), not from Leach (in Ross 1819c). The author of the generaClangula (Anatidae) and Xema (Laridae) is Ross (1819c), not Leach (in Ross 1819c). The species Larus sabini (Laridae)dates from J. Sabine (in Anonymous 1819a), not from J. Sabine (1819). The subspecies of Lagopus mutus (Tetraonidae)from western Greenland should be called Lagopus mutus dispar Ross, 1820c, not Lagopus mutus saturatus Salomonsen, 1950, if recognized. Other corrections consider names which are currently not used as valid.

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Reviews and syntheses: the first records of deep-sea fauna – a correction and discussion

Biogeosciences ◽

10.5194/bg-12-6453-2015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (21) ◽

pp. 6453-6462 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

W. Etter ◽

H. Hess

Keyword(s):

Deep Sea ◽

Animal Life ◽

Benthic Animal ◽

Baffin Bay ◽

Deep Waters ◽

History Of ◽

Deep Sea Fauna ◽

Water Depths ◽

John Ross

Abstract. The soundings in deep waters of Baffin Bay, together with the recovery of a basket star by John Ross in 1818, was a milestone in the history of deep-sea research. Although the alleged water depths of up to 1950 m were by far not reached, these were nevertheless the first soundings in deep bathyal (to perhaps uppermost abyssal) depths. Furthermore, the recovery of a benthic animal proved that animal life existed at great depths. Yet this was not the first published record of deep-sea fauna as it is often portrayed. This merit goes to accidental catches of the stalked crinoid Cenocrinus asterius that were recovered with fishing lines from upper bathyal environments near Antillean islands. In addition, the description of several deep-sea fishes considerably predated the John Ross episode.

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The first records of deep-sea fauna – a correction and discussion

Biogeosciences Discussions ◽

10.5194/bgd-12-8883-2015 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (11) ◽

pp. 8883-8907

Author(s):

W. Etter ◽

H. Hess

Keyword(s):

Deep Sea ◽

Animal Life ◽

Benthic Animal ◽

Baffin Bay ◽

Deep Waters ◽

History Of ◽

Deep Sea Fauna ◽

Water Depths ◽

John Ross

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Holocene polynya dynamics and their interaction with oceanic heat transport in northernmost Baffin Bay

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-88517-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Rebecca Jackson ◽

Anna Bang Kvorning ◽

Audrey Limoges ◽

Eleanor Georgiadis ◽

Steffen M. Olsen ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sediment Cores ◽

Active Role ◽

Atlantic Water ◽

The Arctic ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Baffin Bay ◽

The North ◽

North Water ◽

History Of ◽

Ocean Conditions

AbstractBaffin Bay hosts the largest and most productive of the Arctic polynyas: the North Water (NOW). Despite its significance and active role in water mass formation, the history of the NOW beyond the observational era remains poorly known. We reconcile the previously unassessed relationship between long-term NOW dynamics and ocean conditions by applying a multiproxy approach to two marine sediment cores from the region that, together, span the Holocene. Declining influence of Atlantic Water in the NOW is coeval with regional records that indicate the inception of a strong and recurrent polynya from ~ 4400 yrs BP, in line with Neoglacial cooling. During warmer Holocene intervals such as the Roman Warm Period, a weaker NOW is evident, and its reduced capacity to influence bottom ocean conditions facilitated northward penetration of Atlantic Water. Future warming in the Arctic may have negative consequences for this vital biological oasis, with the potential knock-on effect of warm water penetration further north and intensified melt of the marine-terminating glaciers that flank the coast of northwest Greenland.

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Transatlantic Radicalism

10.3828/liverpool/9781800859609.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

South America ◽

Atlantic Ocean ◽

Case Studies ◽

Individual Case ◽

History Of ◽

Late Nineteenth ◽

Organizational Ties ◽

North And South America ◽

North And South ◽

Political Radicalism

The Atlantic Ocean not only connected North and South America with Europe through trade but also provided the means for an exchange of knowledge and ideas, including political radicalism. Socialists and anarchists would use this “radical ocean” to escape state prosecution in their home countries and establish radical milieus abroad. However, this was often a rather unorganized development and therefore the connections that existed were quite diverse. The movement of individuals led to the establishment of organizational ties and the import and exchange of political publications between Europe and the Americas. The main aim of this book is to show how the transatlantic networks of political radicalism evolved with regard to socialist and anarchist milieus and in particular to look at the actors within the relevant processes—topics that have so far been neglected in the major histories of transnational political radicalism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Individual case studies are examined within a wider context to show how networks were actually created, how they functioned and their impact on the broader history of the radical Atlantic.

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