Area - population relationships for Adelie Penguin colonies at Mawson.

The relationship between colony area and population density of Adelie Penguins Pygoscelis adeliae was examined to determine whether colony area, measured from aerial or satellite imagery, could be used to estimate population density, and hence detect changes in populations over time. Using maps drawn from vertical aerial photographs of Adelie Penguin colonies in the Mawson region, pair density ranged between 0.1 and 3.1 pairs/m2, with a mean of 0.63 - 0.3 pairs/m2. Colony area explained 96.4% of the variance in colony populations (range 90.4 - 99.6%) for 979 colonies at Mawson. Mean densities were not significantly different among the 19 islands in the region, but significant differences in mean pair density were observed among colonies in Mawson, Whitney Point (Casey, East Antarctica) and Cape Crozier (Ross Sea) populations.


This work was completed as part of ASAC project 1219 (ASAC_1219).


The fields in this dataset are:


Island

Latitude

Longitude

Date

Colony area

Breeding Pairs

Breeding Pairs per square metre

Area per nest

Number of nests

Number of adults

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Area - population relationships for Adelie Penguin colonies at Mawson.
Date (Publication)
1999-10-07
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_M_Area

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
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans

Extent

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Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1972-11-17 1988-12-20
Title
The distribution and abundance of Adelie penguins, Pygoscelis adeliae, in the Mawson area and at the Rookery Islands (Specially Protected Area 2), 1981 and 1988.
Date (Publication)
1989
Citation identifier
71

Author

Woehler, E.J., Johnstone, G.W., Burton, H.R.
Name
ANARE Research Notes
Page
36
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAMICS
Keywords
  • ADELIE PENGUINS
  • ANTARCTICA
  • AREA
  • BREEDING PAIRS
  • COLONIES
  • COLONY AREA
  • DATE
  • ISLAND
  • LATITUDE
  • LONGITUDE
  • MAWSON
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FIELD SURVEYS
  • FIELD INVESTIGATION
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

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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_M_Area when using these data.
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AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

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Fees
Free
Planned available datetime
1999-10-07T00:00:00
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Transfer size
44
Distribution format
  • excel

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Some of the data have been taken from ANARE Research Notes 71 (see reference) - unfortunately there were some errors in this publication, so some data have not been transferred to the dataset.
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Maintenance note
2008-04-18 - record updated by Dave Connell. 2015-04-28 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

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Metadata identifier
string/ASAC_1219_AAT_APen_M_Area

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

CONNELL, DAVE J.
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

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AADC
Title
Parent Metadata Record
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Seabirds_AAT

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Dataset

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gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
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Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-29T18:20:21

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metadata.extraction_date

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Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

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http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_1219_AAT_APen_M_Area

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Date info (Creation)
1999-10-07T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2017-04-26

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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