Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Rookery Island Group, 2014

• 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; Rookery Island; Southern Ocean; Adelie penguin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/adelie-penguin-occupancy-group-2014/934322; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Rookery_2014; http://data.aad.gov.au/eds/4412/download; https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Rookery_2014; 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

Two colonies with breeding Adelie colonies were mapped this season in the Rookery Island group in conjunction with colony counts. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonies on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend Cx) to log the track taken. The person walking the p...