TemperateReefBase Geonetwork Catalogue
Preferred foraging areas of Heard Island albatrosses during chick raising and implications for the management of incidental mortality in fisheries
From the abstract of the referenced paper:
1. Incidental mortality in fisheries is causing declines in many albatross populations around the world. To assess potential interactions with regional fisheries satellite tags were used to track black-browed albatrosses (Thalassarche melanophrys) and light-mantled sooty albatrosses (Phoebetria palpebrata) breeding on Heard Island during the chick-rearing periods of 2003/2004. This was the first time individuals from either population had been tracked.
2. Black-browed albatrosses foraged largely within the Heard and McDonald Islands Economic Exclusion Zone (EEZ) north-east of the island, although 20% of foraging trips were to areas north of the EEZ into Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) areas 58.5.1 and 58.5.2 and into the Iles Kerguelen EEZ.
3. In contrast, the light-mantled sooty albatrosses foraged well south of Heard Island along the southern boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Both species appear to face minimal risk of incidental mortality during the chick-rearing period in the regulated, legal fisheries, but are threatened by illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing vessels operating in the southern Indian Ocean.
The data have been loaded into the ARGOS database held by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre. An excel spreadsheet detailing PTT number (position tracking terminal), date of attachment, date of retrieval and species is also provided as an aide to searching the ARGOS database. Two articles are also associated with this record, a refereed journal article, plus an article in the Australian Antarctic Division's Antarctic Magazine.
The fields in this dataset are:
Species
PTT number
Date of attachment
Date of retrieval
Latitude
Longitude
Time
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- Preferred foraging areas of Heard Island albatrosses during chick raising and implications for the management of incidental mortality in fisheries
- Date (Publication)
- 2007-12-18
- Edition
- 1
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 2003-12-21 2004-02-06
- Title
- Preferred foraging areas of Heard Island albatrosses during chick raising and implications for the management of incidental mortality in fisheries
- Date (Publication)
- 2007
- Citation identifier
- 18
- Citation identifier
- DOI: 10.1002/aqc.857
Author
- Name
- Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
- Issue identification
- 3
- Page
- 309–320
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES > FISHERIES
- EARTH SCIENCE > HUMAN DIMENSIONS > ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES PREDATION
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS > FOOD-WEB DYNAMICS
- Keywords
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- ARGOS
- albatross
- Heard Island
- tracking
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- GPS > Global Positioning System
- ARGOS > ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- FIELD SURVEYS
- SATELLITES
- FIELD INVESTIGATION
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- A list of trackers is available for download from the provided URL. To access the tracking data, see the link to the ARGOS database at the provided URL. The pdf copy of the Antarctic Magazine article is available for download from the provided URL.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- 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_2388_alb_foraging when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- free
Distributor
- Fees
- free
Distributor
- Fees
- free
- Units of distribution
- kb
- Transfer size
- 1
- Distribution format
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- csv
- Units of distribution
- kb
- Transfer size
- 356
- Distribution format
-
- Units of distribution
- MB
- Transfer size
- 1.8
- Distribution format
-
- OnLine resource
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GET DATA
Download point for the data - csv file providing details of the trackers placed on birds
- OnLine resource
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GET DATA
ARGOS Satellite Tracking Database
- OnLine resource
-
PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 2388
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Website for accessing the referenced journal article
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Download point for the data - pdf copy of referenced journal article
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Download point for the data - pdf copy of Antarctic Magazine article
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The figures provided in spatial coverage are approximate only. The field program for attaching and retrieving the trackers went very smoothly. For more information, see the referenced papers. From the methods section of the referenced journal article: The movements of 10 black-browed and 5 light-mantled sooty albatrosses were tracked from the vicinity of Jacka Valley, Heard Island, during the brood and chick-rearing periods of the summer of 2003/2004. Miniature satellite tags ('cricket' tags, Sirtrack Ltd, New Zealand, mass 32g, dimensions 50x50x30 mm) were deployed between 21 and 22 December 2003. The tags were attached to 6-8 mantle feathers on the dorsal surface between the wings with Tesa tape and Loctite glue. The tags were programmed to transmit every 90 seconds, and were duty cycled to 2 hours on, 3 hours off. Transmissions were detected by orbiting satellites of the ARGOS system (CLS Argos, France). Tags were left on the same individuals for the duration of the tracking period and were removed between 1 and 6 February 2004.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2007-12-21 - record created by Dave Connell from information provided by Kieran Lawton. 2010-07-26 - record updated by Dave Connell to change URL Content Type. 2016-04-20 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/ASAC_2388_alb_foraging
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 99a9136c-20b1-46a6-8c1e-4c275fb71336
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-11-29T18:38:46
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_2388_alb_foraging
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2007-12-18T00:00:00
- 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
Overviews
Spatial extent
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