SCAR Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data

We assembled tracking data from seabirds (n = 12 species) and marine mammals (n = 5 species), collected between 1991 and 2016, from across the Antarctic predator research community. See https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Standardised and https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: RAYMOND, BEN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), RAYMOND, BEN (processor), Nature (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
environment
oceans
ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
EARTH SCIENCE
AGRICULTURE
ANIMAL SCIENCE
ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
BIRDS
PENGUINS
CETACEANS
MAMMALS
SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
CARNIVORES
TRACKING
BIOTELEMETRY
HABITAT USE
AREAS OF ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE
ARGOS &gt
ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System
GPS &gt
Global Positioning System
GLS &gt
Geolocating Light Logger System
Global Positioning System Satellites
SATELLITES
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
CONTINENT &gt
ANTARCTICA
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
The Antarctic
Weddell
Antarc*
Antarctic Fur Seal
Antarctica
Elephant Seals
Southern Elephant Seals
Wandering Albatross
Weddell Seals
walrus*
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/scar-retrospective-analysis-antarctic-tracking/1425530
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2126-y
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SCAR_RAATD
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:We assembled tracking data from seabirds (n = 12 species) and marine mammals (n = 5 species), collected between 1991 and 2016, from across the Antarctic predator research community. See https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Standardised and https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Filtered for the tracking data. Habitat selectivity modelling was applied to these tracking data in order to identify the environmental characteristics important to each species, and to produce circum-Antarctic predictions of important geographic space for each individual species. The individual species maps were then combined to identify regions important to our full suite of species. This approach enabled us to account for incomplete tracking coverage (i.e., colonies from which no animals have been tracked) and to produce an integrated and spatially explicit assessment of areas of ecological importance across the Southern Ocean. The data attached to this metadata record include the single-species maps for Adelie, emperor, king, macaroni, and royal penguins; Antarctic and white-chinned petrels; black-browed, grey-headed, light-mantled, sooty, and wandering albatross; humpback whales; Antarctic fur seal, southern elephant seals, and crabeater and Weddell seals. The data also include the integrated maps that incorporate all species (weighted by colony size, and unweighted). See the paper and its supplementary information for full details on the modelling process and discussion of the model outputs.

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