Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Kista Island Group, 2015

Seven colonies with breeding Adelie colonies were mapped this season in the Kista Island group between the 17th and 27th of November 2015. 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 su...

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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
Peterson Island
Klung Island
Adelie penguin
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/adelie-penguin-occupancy-group-2015/945625
https://doi.org/10.4225/15/58f98529b4ede
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Kista_2015
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:Seven colonies with breeding Adelie colonies were mapped this season in the Kista Island group between the 17th and 27th of November 2015. 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, generally an average buffer distance of 2.5 meters was maintained between the mapper and breeding birds. However on Klung Island one of the mappers was mapping at a distance between 3 and 5m. Buffer distances were reduced accordingly for the varying tracks to produce a combined average buffer distance of 2m in the final layer. Given this the boundary mapping for these two islands may vary in accuracy. Note when mapping was undertaken at Peterson Island (74507) two subcolonies were not mapped when compared to mapping in the 13/14 season. The larger of these colonies was missed but the smaller colony did not exist in the 15/16 season.

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