Wildlife observations made on the IDIOTS cruise of the Aurora Australis in the 1999-2000 season

• Other Authors: WOEHLER, ERIC (hasPrincipalInvestigator), WOEHLER, ERIC (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; oceans; BIRDS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES; PENGUINS; WADERS/GULLS/AUKS AND ALLIES; MAMMALS; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; CARNIVORES; CETACEANS; BALEEN WHALES; TOOTHED WHALES; Whales; Seals; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis; SHIPS; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; Antarctic; Indian; Mertz Glacier; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; aurora australis; baleen whales; toothed whales; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/wildlife-observations-idiots-2000-season/699424; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_1101_Wildlife; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

This dataset is a subset of the Wildlife on Voyage dataset, and comprises the wildlife observations made onboard the Aurora Australis on the IDIOTS cruise of 1999-2000. There were 45 observed species from 3222 observations. The technique used for collection was that prescribed by the Biological Investigation of Marine Antarctic Systems and Stocks (BIOMASS) Working Party on Bird Ecology. This work was incorporated into ASAC (AAS) projects 1101 and 2208. 1101 - Biology of the Mertz Glacier Polynya 2208 - Variability in the distribution and abundance of seabirds in the Southern Indian Ocean