Effects of human activity on Gentoo penguins on Macquarie Island

• Other Authors: GIESE, MELISSA (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; environment; oceans; ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR; EARTH SCIENCE; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL SCIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; HUMAN DIMENSIONS; BIRDS; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS; APPROACH; BEHAVIOUR; BREEDING PHASE; CLOUD; DATE; COLONY; FOCAL BIRDS TAPE NUMBER; GENTOO; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LOCATION WITHIN COLONY; MACQUARIE ISLAND; PEDESTRIAN; PENGUIN; POST-APPROACH CONTROL; PRE-APPROACH CONTROL; PRECIPITATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SAMPLE; STIMULUS TYPE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WEATHER; WIDE ANGLE TAPE NUMBER; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; WINDSPEED; CAMERAS; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; FIELD SURVEYS; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN > GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Southern Ocean; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/effects-human-activity-macquarie-island/701452; https://doi.org/10.26179/5c995a717f8b9; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/pedestrian_gentoo; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

This project empirically measures the effects of human activity on the behaviour and reproductive success of Gentoo penguins on Macquarie Island. This was achieved by 1) collecting behavioural responses of individual penguins exposed to pedestrian approaches across the breeding stages of guard, creche and moult, and 2) collecting reproductive success data (chicks raised to creche age per nesting pair) for gentoo penguins colonies in areas of high and low human activity. Information produced includes minimum approach guidelines. As of April 2003 all data are stored on Hi-8 digital tape, due to be transformed during 2003 - 2004 into a timecoded tab-delimited text format for analysis using the Observer (Noldus Information Technology 2002). This work was carried out as part of ASAC project 1148 (ASAC_1148). The fields in this dataset are: Sample Date Breeding Phase Stimulus Type Colony Focal birds tape number Wide angle tape number Location within colony Weather Time Windspeed Temperature Precipitation Cloud Pre-approach control Approach Post-approach control Maximum approach distance