Post weaning dispersal and survival in the southern elephant seal

The objectives for this project were:

The project aims to quantify the patterns of dispersal and survival of newly weaned southern elephant seal pups to provide information on position at sea and foraging behaviour of the pups once they leave Macquarie Island, and to examine how this is related to position at sea and foraging behaviour in the second year. This information will be used to test the hypothesis that first year survival is a consequence of the young animals exploiting different foraging grounds to adults, and that fishing activity on the Campbell Plateau may be a contributing factor. In addition, stable isotope analysis and fatty acid signature analysis will be used to examine differences in foraging behaviour from animals while they are at sea.

The raw data from this project is added to the long term database described by the metadata records 'Macquarie Island Elephant Seal Populations 1950-1965', and 'Macquarie Island Elephant Seal Populations 1985 Onwards'. This database has been taken offline, however. A snapshot of the database was taken in January, 1995, and is linked at the provided URL. For access, contact the Australian Antarctic Data Centre.

A number of papers have been produced from this project. Some of these papers are included in the reference section below.

The data collected for the database is as follows:

Seal Number

Status (new or resight)

Date

Location

Age Class

Status (cow, beachmaster, pregnant cow, dead etc)

Sex

Weight

Length

Size

Back Fat

Flipper

Body Water

Time Depth Recorder

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Post weaning dispersal and survival in the southern elephant seal
Date (Publication)
2000-08-08
Edition
1

Originator

Burton, H.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

BURTON, HARRY
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

BURTON, HARRY
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_862

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

N
S
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
1995-09-30 1997-03-31
Title
Environmental and physiological determinants of successful foraging by naive southern elephant seal pups during their first trip to sea.
Date (Publication)
1999
Citation identifier
77

Author

Hindell, M.A., McConnell, B.J., Fedak, M.A., Slip, D.J., Burton, H.R., Reijnders, P.J.H., McMahon, C.R.
Name
Canadian Journal of Zoology
Page
1807-1821
Title
First-year survival of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina , at sub-antarctic Macquarie Island.
Date (Publication)
1999
Citation identifier
21

Author

McMahon, C.R., Burton, H., Bester, M.N.
Name
Polar Biology
Page
279 - 284
Title
Weaning mass and the future survival of juvenile southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina , at Macquarie Island.
Date (Publication)
2000
Citation identifier
12

Author

McMahon, C.R., Burton, H.R., Bester, M.N.
Name
Antarctic Science
Page
149-153
Title
A demographic comparison of two southern elephant seal populations.
Date (Publication)
2003
Citation identifier
72

Author

McMahon, C.R., Burton, H.R., Bester, M.N.
Name
Journal of Animal Ecology
Page
61-74
Title
Migrations and foraging of juvenile southern elephant seals from Macquarie Island within CCAMLR managed areas.
Date (Publication)
2002
Citation identifier
14

Author

van den Hoff, J., Burton, H.R., Hindell, M.A., Sumner, M.D., McMahon, C.R.
Name
Antarctic Science
Issue identification
2
Page
134-145
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POST-BREEDING PERIODS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > RANGE CHANGES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SURVIVAL RATES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
Keywords
  • AGE CLASS
  • BACK FAT
  • BODY WATER
  • DATE
  • ELEPHANT SEAL
  • FLIPPER
  • LENGTH
  • LOCATION
  • MACQUARIE ISLAND
  • SEAL NUMBER
  • SEX
  • SIZE
  • SOUTHERN ELEPHANT SEAL
  • SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • STATUS
  • TDR
  • TIME DEPTH RECORDER
  • WEIGHT
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FIELD SURVEYS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > MACQUARIE ISLAND
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Resource constraints

Use limitation
This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

Access constraints
licence
Other constraints
These data are now part of a snapshot copy of the seal tagging database taken in January 2015, but are not publicly available for download. For access, contact the Australian Antarctic Data Centre.

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

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_862 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

Distributor

Fees
free
OnLine resource
GET DATA

Download the January 2015 snapshot of the Seal Tagging Database

OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

Public information for ASAC project 862

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
Values provided in temporal coverage are approximate only.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2008-02-08 - record updated by Dave Connell - Distribution field and use constraints updated. 2011-11-30 - record updated by Dave Connell to link to the TAGS database. 2016-12-08 - record updated by Dave Connell to remove link to TAGS database.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/ASAC_862

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

BURTON, HARRY
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
0e3463fd-900d-48c8-8438-02f61b4eb17c

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2015-11-30T06:38:16

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_862

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2000-08-08T00:00:00
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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