Data from: High resolution spatial mapping of human footprint across Antarctica and its implications for the strategic conservation of avifauna ...

Human footprint models allow visualization of human spatial pressure across the globe. Up until now, Antarctica has been omitted from global footprint models, due possibly to the lack of a permanent human population and poor accessibility to necessary datasets. Yet Antarctic ecosystems face increasi...

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Main Authors: Pertierra, Luis R., Hughes, Kevin A., Vega, Greta C., Olalla-Tárraga, Miguel Á.
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Dryad 2017
Subjects:
Research stations
ice-free areas
Environmental protection
Antarctic conservation
Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
East Antarctica
The Antarctic
Victoria Land
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.fp0nh
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.fp0nh
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Summary:Human footprint models allow visualization of human spatial pressure across the globe. Up until now, Antarctica has been omitted from global footprint models, due possibly to the lack of a permanent human population and poor accessibility to necessary datasets. Yet Antarctic ecosystems face increasing cumulative impacts from the expanding tourism industry and national Antarctic operator activities, the management of which could be improved with footprint assessment tools. Moreover, Antarctic ecosystem dynamics could be modelled to incorporate human drivers. Here we present the first model of estimated human footprint across predominantly ice-free areas of Antarctica. To facilitate integration into global models, the Antarctic model was created using methodologies applied elsewhere with land use, density and accessibility features incorporated. Results showed that human pressure is clustered predominantly in the Antarctic Peninsula, southern Victoria Land and several areas of East Antarctica. To demonstrate ... : High resolution map of estimated human footprint levels across AntarcticaRaster file (tif.) of 30 arcsecond resolution (1x1 km in the equator) with the human footprint levels across Antarctica simulated electronically. Detailed information on the modelling process can be found in Pertierra LR, Hughes KA, Vega GC and Olalla-Tarraga MA (2016) ‘High resolution spatial mapping of human footprint across Antarctica and its implications for strategic avifauna conservation’ PlosONE.HFP Score1.tif ...

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