CS-PHOC: Weekly census counts of Southern Ocean phocids at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island (1997-2023) ...

• Main Authors: Woodman, Samuel M., Borras-Chavez, Renato, Goebel, Michael E., Torres, Daniel, Anelio Aguayo, Krause, Douglas J.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: SCAR - AntOBIS 2024
• Subjects: Samplingevent; OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN; ANTARCTICA; MARINE MAMMALS; PINNIPED; BIOGEOGRAPHY; census count data; Observation; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Hydrurga leptonyx; Livingston Island; Lobodon carcinophagus; Mirounga leonina; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/d79fbe; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/2945946f-8a97-41e4-952d-f0a9438b0f2e

The Cape Shirreff Phocid Census (CS-PHOC) dataset is part of long-term monitoring efforts at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) United States Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program (U.S. AMLR) and the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) have conducted synoptic, weekly counts of Southern Ocean phocids hauled out on Cape Shirreff during most austral summers since 1997-98. These census data, which will continue to be collected by the U.S. AMLR program and thus updated yearly, provide a rare and valuable source of information about changes in population trends and area use by Southern Ocean phocids in a climate change hot spot. CS-PHOC is a sampling event type dataset published as open data with technical support provided by SCAR Antarctic Biodiversity Portal (biodiversity.aq) (BELSPO project RT/23/ADVANCE). This dataset contains records of Hydrurga leptonyx, Leptonychotes weddellii, Lobodon carcinophagus, and Mirounga leonina census counts at Cape ...