Effects of human activity on King penguins on Macquarie Island

• Other Authors: AADC (owner), AADC, DATA OFFICER (distributor), AADC, DATA OFFICER (custodian), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (hasAssociationWith), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher), Australian Antarctic Division (sponsor), GIESE, MELISSA (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Giese, M. and Holmes, N. (originator), HOLMES, NICK (collaborator), HOLMES, NICK (author)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; environment; oceans; EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > ANIMAL SCIENCE > ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR; HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS; BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAMICS; APPROACH; BEHAVIOUR; BREEDING PHASE; CLOUD; COLONY; DATE; FOCAL BIRDS TAPE NUMBER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; KING; LOCATION WITHIN COLONY; MAXIMUM APPROACH DISTANCE; PEDESTRIAN; PENGUIN; POST-APPROACH CONTROL; PRE-APPROACH CONTROL; PRECIPITATION; SAMPLE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WEATHER; WIDE ANGLE TAPE NUMBER; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; WINDSPEED; CAMERAS; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; FIELD SURVEYS; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; King Penguins; Macquarie Island; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/effects-human-activity-macquarie-island/2817600

Progress Code: completed This project empirically measures the effects of human activity on the behaviour of King penguins on Macquarie Island, under ASAC project 1148. This was achieved by collecting behavioural responses of individual penguins exposed to pedestrian approaches across the breeding stages of incubation and guard. Information produced includes minimum approach guidelines. As of April 2003 all data are stored on Hi-8 digital tape, due to be transformed during 2003 - 2004 into a timecoded tab-delimited text format for analysis using the Observer (Noldus Information Technology 2002). The fields in this dataset are: Sample Date Breeding Phase Approach Colony Focal birds tape number Wide angle tape number Weather Time Windspeed Temperature Precipitation Cloud Pre-approach control Post-approach control Maximum approach distance