Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Rookery Island Group, 2013

Six colonies with breeding Adelie colonies were mapped this season in the Rookery Island group in conjunction with colony counts. Islands 74814 and the main Rookery Island 74721 were not mapped this season. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonies on foot while carry...

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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
Rookery Island
Southern Ocean
Adelie penguin
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/adelie-penguin-occupancy-group-2013/945658
https://doi.org/10.4225/15/58f991a22a960
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Rookery_2013
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:Six colonies with breeding Adelie colonies were mapped this season in the Rookery Island group in conjunction with colony counts. Islands 74814 and the main Rookery Island 74721 were not mapped this season. 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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