Effects of human activity on King penguins on Macquarie Island

• Other Authors: GIESE, MELISSA (hasPrincipalInvestigator), HOLMES, NICK (processor), 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; COLONY; DATE; FOCAL BIRDS TAPE NUMBER; HUMAN ACTIVITY; KING; LOCATION WITHIN COLONY; MAXIMUM APPROACH DISTANCE; PEDESTRIAN; PENGUIN; POST-APPROACH CONTROL; PRE-APPROACH CONTROL; PRECIPITATION; SAMPLE; TEMPERATURE; TIME; WEATHER; WIDE ANGLE TAPE NUMBER; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; WINDSPEED; CAMERAS; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; FIELD SURVEYS; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Southern Ocean; King Penguins; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/effects-human-activity-macquarie-island/701453; https://doi.org/10.26179/5c9b0945b3957; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/pedestrian_king; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

This project empirically measures the effects of human activity on the behaviour of King penguins on Macquarie Island, under ASAC project 1148. This was achieved by collecting behavioural responses of individual penguins exposed to pedestrian approaches across the breeding stages of incubation and guard. 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). The fields in this dataset are: Sample Date Breeding Phase Approach Colony Focal birds tape number Wide angle tape number Weather Time Windspeed Temperature Precipitation Cloud Pre-approach control Post-approach control Maximum approach distance