Adelie Penguin Distributions in the Davis Area, Antarctica

This dataset contains data on the habitats, distribution and numbers of Adelie Penguins (Pygoscellis adeliae) along the Vestfold Hills coast (including colonies on the mainland and offshore islands) during November 1973. The data are obtained from counts at the colonies and black and white photographs. Some aerial photographs were taken at Davis in 1981-82 and 1987-88, and will be compared to the results of this survey. The results are listed in the documentation. A total of 174178 26127 breeding pairs were counted. An increase in Adelie penguin population was found at most locations in East Antarctica.

Data from this record has been incorporated into a larger Adelie penguin dataset described by the metadata record - Annual population counts at selected Adelie Penguin colonies within the AAT (SOE_seabird_candidate_sp_AP). It also falls under ASAC project 1219 (ASAC_1219).

Identification info

Alternate title: Adelie Penguin Distributions in the Davis Area, Antarctica

Date (Publication): 2013-06-18

Edition: 1

Originator

Woehler, E.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

WOEHLER, ERIC

Birds Tasmania

Hobart

Tasmania

7001

Australia

Collaborator

WOEHLER, ERIC

Birds Tasmania

Hobart

Tasmania

7001

Australia

Name: CAASM Metadata

Website: https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_1219_AAT_APen_D_73

Status: Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Topic category

Biota
Oceans

Extent

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Extent

Description: Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod: 1973-11-08 1973-11-14

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > MIGRATORY RATES/ROUTES

Keywords

ADELIE PENGUINS
ANTARCTICA
DAVIS
DISTRIBUTION

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

FIELD INVESTIGATION
FIELD SURVEYS

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

AMD/AU
CEOS
AMD

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Resource constraints

Use limitation: This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

Access constraints: licence

Other constraints: NONDIGITAL - Hardcopy maps and count results. NONDIGITAL Data are published in Woehler E.J. (1989), reference provided in the reference section. These data have been incorporated into a larger Adelie Penguin dataset which is publicly available for download from the provided URL.

Resource constraints

File type: Portable Network Graphic

Linkage: Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Website: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
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Use constraints: licence

Other constraints: This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_1219_AAT_APen_D_73 when using these data.

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Distributor

Fees: Free

Planned available datetime: 2013-06-18T00:00:00

Units of distribution: kb

Transfer size: 1

Distribution format

csv

OnLine resource: EXTENDED METADATA
See the metadata record for the full dataset

OnLine resource: GET DATA
Download the data

OnLine resource: PROJECT HOME PAGE
Adelie penguin monitoring program

OnLine resource: PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 1219

OnLine resource: VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement: All colonies in the region, including mainland and island colonies, were mapped. Where an island has no colony mapped, this indicates that no colony was present during the survey. The Vestfold Hills were surveyed from south to north, from the Sorsdal Glacier to the Wyatt Earp Islands, including all mainland and island colonies. Counts of breeding pairs were made at the colonies, and black and white photographs were taken for on-ground colony details. Exact counts were made at smaller colonies, while at larger colonies the penguin numbers were estimated by sub-dividing the colony into units of 10, 100 or 1000 birds, and repeating this method until a duplicate estimate was obtained. Totals were halved to obtain the number of breeding pairs. Maps show the location and distribution of each colony, plus the data censused and the number of breeding pairs counted. This data set provides data from the early 1970s, which extends the time frame back over which population trends can be established.

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

Maintenance note: 2015-04-28 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier: string/ASAC_1219_AAT_APen_D_73

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Author

CONNELL, DAVE J.

Australian Antarctic Division

203 Channel Highway

Kingston

Tasmania

7050

Australia

+61 3 6232 3244

+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Title: Parent Metadata Record

Citation identifier: Seabirds_AAT

Type of resource

Resource scope: Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Citation identifier: 61cb8916-67e8-4297-93ce-ef63bc5208ab

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Date (Last Revision): 2015-04-27T20:33:14

Identifier

Description: metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title: gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd

Citation identifier: 8.6

Metadata linkage: http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_1219_AAT_APen_D_73
Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation): 1999-10-07T00:00:00

Date info (Last Update): 2015-04-27

Metadata standard

Title: ISO 19115-3

Edition: 2014

Other citation details: Version 1

Title: DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile

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