Adelie penguin occupancy survey of Bechervaise Island, 2016

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; PENGUINS; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; BIRDS; BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY; CLIMATE INDICATORS; BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS; COLONIES; GPS RECEIVERS; FIELD SURVEYS; FIELD INVESTIGATION; AMD/AU; AMD; CEOS; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; Southern Ocean; Adelie penguin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/adelie-penguin-occupancy-island-2016/934271; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Bechervaise_2016; http://data.aad.gov.au/eds/4410/download; https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Bechervaise_2016; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=AAS_4088; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=AAS_4087

Adelie colony boundaries at Bechervaise Island were mapped by Matthew Pauza on the 21 Dec 2016. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Etrex30) to record the track. When mapping the perimeter of the subcolonies a buffer distance of approximately 2.5 meters was maintained between the mapper and the breeding birds. This buffer distance was reduced by .5m to between 2m in the final shapefiles.