Antarctic Fur Seal Populations on Heard Island Summer 1987-1988

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; MAMMALS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; SPECIES LIFE HISTORY; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; USE/FEEDING HABITATS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; AGE CLASS; BULLS; CENSUS; COLONY; COWS; DATE; HEARD ISLAND; LOCALITY; PUPS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; FIELD SURVEYS; 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; SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS; Antarctic; Atlas Cove; Heard; Heard Island; Indian; McDonald Islands; Southern Ocean; Spit Bay; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Antarctic Fur Seals; Antarctica; Arctocephalus gazella; International Polar Year; IPY; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/antarctic-fur-seal-1987-1988/686770; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AADC-00009; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=1200; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AADC-00009

The study covered as many colonies of Heard Island as possible, and as frequently as possible. Isolated sites or those difficult to reach were visited on an opportunistic basis. Counts were made between 25 November 1987 and 25 February 1988. Most of the censuses were conducted by expeditioners based...