Antarctic fur seal abundance at South Georgia

• Main Authors: Forcada, Jaume, Hoffman, Joseph, Gimenez, Olivier, Staniland, Iain, Bucktrout, Pete, Wood, Andrew
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Antarctic fur seal; Arctocephalus gazella; helicopter survey; Bird Island; SSB; abundance data; IPM; mark-recapture; South Georgia; Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seal; Antarctic Fur Seals; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/8356184; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2rbnzs7tc

Data sets for the abundance analysis of Antarctic fur seal data at South Georgia. Data were obtained from helicopter surveys in 2007–09 and long-term studies at the Special Study Beach of Bird Island, South Georgia, from 1994 to 2022. Data requires R software. It has two scripts (*.r) for RStudio for fitting integrated population models (IPM) models with R and JAGS; one for female and another for male Antarctic fur seal count and mark-recapture data. The scripts reproduce the results in the the published article. Data files for using the R scripts are in R software Rds format. The best use of the scripts and data files is described in detail in the Readme file.Funding provided by: Natural Environment Research CouncilCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000270Award Number: Helicopter survey and hand-held digital SLR cameras. South Georgia, SW Atlantic. Antarctic fur seal long-term demographic and genetic studies at Bird Island, South Georgia. See manuscript for detail: Article Title: Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South GeorgiaArticle DH_ID: 17818825Article DOI:10.1111/gcb.16947Journal Code: GCBInstitution/Funder Name: British Antarctic Survey