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Responses and adaptations by two seal species to variability in the Southern Ocean ecosystem
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2753
See the link below for public details on this project.
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Weddell and southern elephant seals are high-order predators living in the Antarctic marine ecosystem. Their place in that ecosystem is the result of a long history of evolutionary adaptation to a challenging and changing environment. The objective of this study is to understand how Weddell and elephant seals have adapted and are responding to today's rapidly changing Antarctic environment. This study will use current and innovative approaches in demographic (population) analyses and diet techniques to analyse changes in the seals' demographic parameters and historical aspects of their ecology.
Project objectives:
Objective 1. Seek a greater understanding of the links between climate based environmental parameters and Weddell seal demographic performance.
Objective 2. Test the hypothesis that the foraging ecology and presence of male southern elephant seals hauling out along the Antarctic coast are regulated by variation in the extent and concentration of coastal sea-ice.
Objective 3. Examine contemporary and historical dietary shifts in an Antarctic marine predator by using a non-invasive technique, stable isotope analyses.
Objective 4. Construct models of potential population performance for Weddell and southern elephant seals with predicted climate change
Taken from the 2008-2009 Progress Report:
Progress against objectives:
The first season of field work was conducted at Casey in December 2008. This comprised of surveys of the region to locate breeding and moulting haulouts, weighing and flipper tagging of Weddell seal pups and flipper tagging of sub adult elephant seals. Specifically:
Tagging Leptonychotes weddellii. A total of 30 pups were flipper tagged.
Tagging: 46 sub-adult male Mirounga leonina in Browning Peninsula region.
Aerial survey of the Casey fast-ice conducted on 30/1/2009. Conducted at 1000, 500, 300 ft. A total of 33 seals counted.
Taken from the 2009-2010 Progress Report:
Progress against objectives:
1. Observations of tagged Weddell seals made in the Vestfold Hills during the breeding season.
2. Counts were made of elephant seals at Davis station
3. No progress made due to postponement of project at Casey
4. Data collected on Weddell and elephant seals at Davis. No modelling undertaken in this year
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Identification info
- Alternate title
- Responses and adaptations by two seal species to variability in the Southern Ocean ecosystem
- Date (Publication)
- 2009-05-01
- Edition
- 1
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Oceans
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- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 2006-09-30 2012-03-31
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > COASTAL
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS > PELAGIC
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS
- Keywords
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- Weddell Seals
- Elephant Seals
- Tagging
- Climate Change
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- FIELD SURVEYS
- FIELD INVESTIGATION
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- Data from this project were entered into the TAGS database, but this database has been taken offline due to ongoing maintenance problems. In January, 2015 a snapshot of the database was taken, and this file is available for download from the provided URL. This dataset is incorporated into this larger file.
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_2753 when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- Free
- OnLine resource
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GET DATA
Download the January 2015 snapshot of the Seal Tagging Database
- OnLine resource
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PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 2753
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The values provided in temporal and spatial coverage are approximate only. Taken from the 2008-2009 Progress Report: Field work: Tagging Leptonychotes weddellii throughout the Casey region. Tagging: 46 sub-adult male Mirounga leonina in Browning Peninsula region. Aerial survey of the Casey fast-ice conducted on 30/1/2009 Taken from the 2009-2010 Progress Report: Field work: Tagged Weddell seals were observed at Davis and elephant seal numbers collated. No work was undertaken at Casey this season. The tag resight data collected will be entered into the AADC data bases by Sept 2010.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2009-05-01 - record created by Dave Connell from information submitted in the progress report. 2010-08-31 - record updated by Dave Connell from information provided in the progress report. 2016-08-18 - record updated by Dave Connell to remove the link to the TAGS database, and point towards the snapshot instead.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/ASAC_2753
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- d392e465-2e3e-477c-b538-1c16564cd3f4
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2015-11-29T18:40:33
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
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http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2753
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2009-05-01T00:00:00
- 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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