Seabird assemblages observed during the BROKE-West survey of the Antarctic coastline (30-80 E), January-March 2006

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; BIRDS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES; PENGUINS; WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES; BROKE-West; Seabirds; R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis; SHIPS; AMD; AMD/AU; CEOS; ACE/CRC; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Arctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica; Arctic tern; aurora australis; Sea ice; Snow Petrel
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/seabird-assemblages-observed-march-2006/684817; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/BROKE-West_Seabirds; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/search_data.cfm?voyage_id=178&collection_id=8; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=2208; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=2655; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=BROKE-West_Seabirds

Observations of the numbers and behaviours of all seabirds present within a 300m forward quadrant of the ship were recorded continuously while the vessel was underway during daylight hours. Ship-followers were excluded from all analyses following BIOMASS Working Party on Bird Ecology (1982) as these...