Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Vestfold Hills, 2009

• 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; CAMERAS; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; AIRCRAFT; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; Southern Ocean; Vestfold Hills; Vestfold; Adelie penguin; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/adelie-penguin-occupancy-hills-2009/945679; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/5902c94758b2e; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Vestfold_2009; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

Occupancy surveys in November 2008 (Southwell and Emmerson 2013) found a total of 31 Adelie penguin breeding sites off the Vestfold Hills. The boundaries of breeding sub-colonies at 26 of these sites were subsequently mapped from vertical aerial photographs taken for abundance surveys on 18-21 November 2009 (for details of aerial photography see Southwell et al. 2013). These boundaries were mapped with a buffer distance of approximately 1-3 m from the perimeter of penguin sub-colonies.