| ACAP | Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels |
AMLR | Antarctic Marine Living Resources |
APIS | The International Antarctic Pack Ice Seals Programme |
| ARK | Association of Responsible Krill harvesting companies |
ASO | Antarctica and the Southern Ocean |
BIOMASS | Biological Investigations of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks (1981-1991) |
BROKE | Baseline Research on Oceanography, Krill and the Environment |
| CAML | Census of Antarctic Marine Life |
| CAR | Comprehensiveness, Adequacy and Representativeness |
| CBD | Convention on Biological Diversity |
| CCR | Climate change refugia |
CEMP | CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Programme |
| CEP | Committee for Environmental Protection |
CCAMLR | Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources |
CCAMLR-2000 Survey | CCAMLR 2000 Krill Survey in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean |
| COLTO | Coalition of Legal Toothfish Operators |
CPR | Continuous Plankton Recorder |
EASIZ | Ecology of the Antarctic Sea Ice Zone (1994-2004) |
| ENSO | El Niño Southern Oscillation |
| IAATO | International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators |
ICED | Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean |
| IDCR-SOWER | International Decade of Cetacean Research - Southern Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research Programme |
IPY | International Polar Year |
| IUCN | International Union for Conservation of Nature |
| IUU | Illegal, unreported, unregulated fishing |
IWC | International Whaling Commission |
LTER | Long-term Ecological Research Programme |
MEASO | Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean |
| NIS | Non-indigenous species |
| PAL-LTER | Palmer Long-term Ecological Research Programme |
| RAMS | Register of Antarctic Marine Species |
RATS | Rothera Antarctic Time Series |
| SAM | Southern Annular Mode |
SCAR | Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research |
SCAR MarBIN | Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Marine Biodiversity Network, now biodiversity.aq |
SC-CAMLR | Scientific Committee for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources |
| SMA | Specially Managed Areas |
SO | Southern Ocean |
SOKI | Southern Ocean Knowledge and Information WIKI |
SOCCOM | Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modelling |
SOOS | Southern Ocean Observing System |
SORP | Southern Ocean Research Partnership |
SOWER | Southern Ocean Whale and Ecosystems Research Programme (1978-2009) |
SO-GLOBEC | Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics |
| SPA | Specially Protected Areas |
| VMEs | Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems |
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