APIS - Antarctic Pack Ice Seals 1994-1999, plus historical data from the 1980's

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; ICE EXTENT; EARTH SCIENCE; CRYOSPHERE; SEA ICE; PACK ICE; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; CARNIVORES; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL; PELAGIC; SPECIES LIFE HISTORY; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; USE/FEEDING HABITATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; BIOMASS DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ADELIE PENGUIN; AGE; APNOEA; APPROACH; AROUSAL LEVEL; BLOOD; BLUBBER; CRABEATER SEAL; DATE; DISTANCE; DRUGS; EMPEROR PENGUIN; GIRTH; GROUP; HAIR; HEART RATE; LATITUDE; LENGTH; LEOPARD SEAL; LONGITUDE; MINKE WHALE; MOVEMENT; NASAL SWAB; NUMBER; ORCA WHALE; PENGUIN; RESPIRATION RATE; ROSS SEAL; SCAT; SEALS; SEDATION LEVEL; SEX; SKIN; SOUTHERN ELEPHANT SEAL; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPECIES; TIME; TIME AT DEPTH; TOOTH; WCID; WEDDELL SEAL; WEIGHT; WHALE; WIDTH; WILDLIFE COMPUTERS IDENTIFICATION NUMBER; GPS > Global Positioning System; SHIPS; OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; IPY > INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR; SCAR-MARBIN > SCAR Marine Biodiversity Information Network; CAML > CENSUS OF ANTARCTIC MARINE LIFE; COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE; EBA > Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; OBIS/AADC; ANTABIF; OCEAN > CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Sikorsky; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Adelie penguin; Antarc*; Antarctica; Crabeater Seal; Elephant Seal; ice pack; International Polar Year; Leopard Seal; Lobodon carcinophagus; minke whale; Orca; Ross Seal; SCAR; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research; Sea ice; Southern Elephant Seal; Weddell Seal; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/apis-antarctic-pack-historical-1980s/685663; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/APIS; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=1648; http://iobis.org/mapper/; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=775; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=2263; http://www.seals.scar.org/pdf/IntAPISSummUpdateRevis.pdf; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=APIS

APIS data were collected between 1994 and 1999. This dataset also includes some historical data collected between 1985 and 1987. Both aerial and ship-board surveys were conducted. Studies on the behaviour of Pack-ice or Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) in the Southern Ocean and in the Australi...