Adelie penguin occupancy survey of the Windmill Island group, 2012 - 2013

An occupancy survey in January 2011 found a total of 14 islands/sites in Windmill group had populations of breeding Adelie penguins. The boundaries of breeding colonies at 11 of the 14 islands were subsequently mapped for abundance surveys. Seven islands were mapped on the ground with GPS: Whitney P...

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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
Berkley Island
Blakeney Point
Cameron Island
O'Connor
O'Connor Island
Odbert Island
Shirley Island
Southern Ocean
Whitney Point
Adelie penguin
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/adelie-penguin-occupancy-2012-2013/945694
https://doi.org/10.4225/15/58f6edaedaa3e
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Windmill_2012-2013
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
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Summary:An occupancy survey in January 2011 found a total of 14 islands/sites in Windmill group had populations of breeding Adelie penguins. The boundaries of breeding colonies at 11 of the 14 islands were subsequently mapped for abundance surveys. Seven islands were mapped on the ground with GPS: Whitney Point, Blakeney Point, Shirley Island, Odbert Island, Berkley Island, Cameron Island and O'Connor Island between 10 December 2012 to 9 January 2013 ). The buffer distance was reduced to 1-2 m in the shapefiles created from the ground maps. Ground mapping involved circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonies on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend Cx or Vista C) to log the track taken. The person walking around the sub-colonies maintained a buffer distance of 2-3 m between themselves and the penguins at the sub-colony boundary to minimise disturbance.

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