Cape Shirreff female Antarctic fur seal geolocation tracking data

• Other Authors: LEA, MARY-ANNE (hasPrincipalInvestigator), LEA, MARY-ANNE (processor), HINDELL, MARK A. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), HINDELL, MARK A. (processor), GOEBEL, MICHAEL (hasPrincipalInvestigator), GOEBEL, MICHAEL (processor), ARTHUR, BENJAMIN (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; oceans; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; CARNIVORES; SPECIES LIFE HISTORY; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; Fur Seals; Geolocation; Tracking; Cape Shirreff; Livingston Island; GPS RECEIVERS; GPS > Global Positioning System; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FIELD SURVEYS; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; Antarctic; Shirreff; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Antarctica; Arctocephalus gazella; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/cape-shirreff-female-geolocation-tracking/700073; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/531FDF2765BAB; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2940_Cape_Shirreff; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

To quantify the post-breeding movements of adult female Antarctic females (Arctocephalus gazella) we tracked females using Biotrack GLS (geolocation) data loggers. Females were captured towards the end of the lactation period (March/April) and the GLS tag, affixed to a Dalton flipper tag, was deployed in the trailing edge of the left or right foreflipper. Tags were generally retrieved just prior to or after giving birth the following season. Data files were extracted from the tags using BASTrak software. .lig - light data .tem - temperature data .act - activity data Metadata for each individual include: Site, year, GLS ID, sex, age, deployment site, lat and long of deployment site, flipper tag number, deployment and retrieval times (GMT).