Spatial distribution of a flying seabird (Antarctic petrel) and penguins (Adélie penguin, Emperor penguin) in the wider Weddell Sea (Antarctica) with links to ArcGIS map packages ...

• Main Authors: Pehlke, Hendrik, Brey, Thomas, Teschke, Katharina
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: Antarctica; Aptenodytes forsteri; Marine Protected Area MPA; Pygoscelis adeliae; Weddell Sea; File content; File name; File format; File size; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Model; Development of a CCAMLR Marine Protected Area in the Antarctic Weddell Sea WSMPA; Functional Ecology @ AWI AWI_FuncEco; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Petrel; Emperor penguins; Sea ice; Southern Ocean; Thalassoica antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.899520; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.899520

Here we provide four ArcGIS map packages with georeferenced files on the spatial distribution of Antarctic petrels, Adélie penguins (breeders and non-breeders) and Emperor penguins in the wider Weddell Sea (Antarctica), which were created in the context of the development of a marine protected area in the Weddell Sea.Antarctic petrel (Thalassoica antarctica): We approximated potential foraging habitats of T. antarctica according to existing literature by ice coverage from AMSR-E sea ice maps, bathymetric data from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO), and seawater temperature data from the Finite Element Sea Ice - Ocean Model (FESOM) provided by R. Timmermann (AWI). Subsequently, we combined our Antarctic petrel model with the kernel utilization distribution model from Descamps et al. (2016). The authors kindly provided us with shape files showing the kernel utilization summer and winter distribution of Antarctic petrel breeding at Svarthamaren. Breeding locations and estimated ...