Antarctic Penguin Biogeography Project: Database of abundance and distribution for the Adélie, chinstrap, gentoo, emperor, macaroni, and king penguin south of 60 S

• Main Authors: Che-Castaldo,Christian, Humphries,Grant, Lynch,Heather
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2023
• Subjects: Samplingevent; ocean; Southern Ocean; Antarctica; birds; penguins; population abundance; biogeography; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Aptenodytes forsteri; Eudyptes chrysolophus; Pygoscelis adeliae; Pygoscelis antarctica; Pygoscelis papua
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e101581; https://preprints.arphahub.com/article/101581/

The Antarctic Penguin Biogeography Project is an effort to collate all known information about the distribution and abundance of Antarctic penguins through time and to make such data available to the scientific and management community. The core data product involves a series of structured tables with information on known breeding sites and surveys conducted at those sites from the earliest days of Antarctic exploration through to the present. This database, which is continuously updated as new information becomes available, provides a unified and comprehensive repository of information on Antarctic penguin biogeography that contributes to a growing suite of applications of value to the Antarctic community. One such application is the Mapping Application for Antarctic Penguins and Projected Dynamics (MAPPPD; www.penguinmap.com), a browser-based search and visualization tool designed primarily for policymakers and other non-specialists, and mapppdr, an R package developed to assist the Antarctic science community. This dataset contains records of Pygoscelis adeliae, Pygoscelis antarctica, Pygoscelis papua, Eudyptes chrysolophus, Aptenodytes patagonicus, and Aptenodytes forsteri annual nest, adult, and/or chick counts conducted during field expeditions or collected using remote sensing imagery, that were subsequently gathered by the Antarctic Penguin Biogeography Project from published and unpublished sources, at all known Antarctic penguin breeding colonies south of 60 S from 1892-11-01 to 2022-02-12. This dataset collates together all publicly available breeding colony abundance data (1979-2022) for Antarctic penguins in a single database with standardized notation and format. Colony locations have been adjusted as necessary using satellite imagery, and each colony has been assigned a unique four-digit alphanumeric code to avoid confusion. These data include information previously published in a variety of print and online formats as well as additional survey data not previous published. Previously unpublished ...