Adelie penguin occupancy survey of Bechervaise Island and Kista Rock, 2013

Six colonies with breeding Adelie colonies were mapped this season on Kista Island. On Bechervaise Island subcolonies C and R were not mapped and so are missing from the final layer, but birds were present in these subcolonies. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonie...

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Other Authors: SOUTHWELL, COLIN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), SOUTHWELL, COLIN (processor), EMMERSON, LOUISE (hasPrincipalInvestigator), EMMERSON, LOUISE (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
biota
oceans
PENGUINS
EARTH SCIENCE
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
BIRDS
BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY
CLIMATE INDICATORS
BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS
COLONIES
GPS RECEIVERS
FIELD SURVEYS
FIELD INVESTIGATION
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
CONTINENT &gt
ANTARCTICA
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN
Southern Ocean
Kista
Kista Rock
Adelie penguin
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/adelie-penguin-occupancy-rock-2013/945613
https://doi.org/10.4225/15/58f8371004d47
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Bechervaise_Kista_2013
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:Six colonies with breeding Adelie colonies were mapped this season on Kista Island. On Bechervaise Island subcolonies C and R were not mapped and so are missing from the final layer, but birds were present in these subcolonies. 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 perimeter of the sub-colonies maintained a buffer distance of approximately 2.5m between themselves and the breeding birds along the sub-colony boundary. This buffer distance was reduced to approximately 2m in the final shapefiles.

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