TemperateReefBase Geonetwork Catalogue
A census of penguin colony counts (provided to OBIS) from the year 1900 to 1996 in the Antarctic Region
This dataset is a census of penguin colony counts from the year 1900 in the Antarctic region. It forms part of the Inventory of Antarctic seabird breeding sites within the Antarctic and subantarctic islands. The Antarctic and subantarctic fauna database (seabirds) is a database detailing the distribution and abundance of breeding localities for Antarctic and Subantarctic seabirds. Each species' compilation was produced by members of the SCAR Bird Biology Subcommittee.
This separate metadata record has been created beacause it represents only the penguin colony counts that have been published to OBIS. Note: The Year (not day or month) date is only relevent in this dataset. The positions that have been published to OBIS include latitude and longitude positions that were not included within the original dataset. The latitude and longitude positions that were not noted by the observer have been created from the locality given by the observer using the Antarctic Composite Gazetteer.
Two spreadsheets are available for download, from the URL given below. The original, unmodified spreadsheet is available, as well as a corrected spreadsheet. In the corrected spreadsheet, the AADC has attempted to reconcile the poorly presented localities into a single column. It is possible that some of these localities may not be correct.
The fields in this dataset are:
SCAR Number
Species
Region
Locality
Longitude
Latitude
Number of Colonies
Number of Pairs
Type and accuracy of count
Data Date
References
Remarks
These data are further referenced in ANARE Research Notes 9 - see reference below.
Simple
Identification info
- Alternate title
- A census of penguin colony counts (provided to OBIS) from the year 1900 to 1996 in the Antarctic Region
- Date (Publication)
- 2006-10-19
- Edition
- 1
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
-
- Biota
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 1901-01-01 1996-12-31
- Title
- The distribution of penguin breeding colonies on the Australian Antarctic Territory, Heard Island, the McDonald Islands, and Macquarie Island.
- Date (Publication)
- 1983
- Citation identifier
- 9
Author
- Name
- ANARE Research Notes
- Page
- 82
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
- Keywords
-
- Penguin
- Colonies
- counts
- Census
- Antarctic
- Subantarctic Islands
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- OBIS > OCEAN BIOGEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM
- COML > CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
-
- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
- OBIS/SCAR-MARBIN
- AMD/SCAR-MARBIN
- OBIS/AADC
- ANTABIF
- 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
- The excel spreadsheet of data are available for download from the URL given below.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- 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=FAUNA_PENGUIN_COLONY when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- free
- Planned available datetime
- 2006-10-19T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- kb
- Transfer size
- 127
- Distribution format
-
- Excel
- OnLine resource
-
GET DATA
Download Point for the data - original and modified excel spreadsheets
- OnLine resource
-
PROJECT HOME PAGE
OBIS Home page
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The dates provided in temporal coverage are approximate only. As well as the original spreadsheet, a modified spreadsheet is available for download from the URL given below. The AADC cannot guarantee the quality of the modified dataset. The codes used in the type and accuracy column are: C = chick A = Adult N = Nest B = Birds (when no information available as to whether chick or adult) 1 = pairs/nests essentially individually counted. The count is probably accurate to better than plus or minus 5 %. 2 = numbers of pairs in a known area counted individually and knowing the total area of the colony, the overall total calculated. This technique is useful for very large colonies. 3 = Accurate estimates; plus or minus 10-15 % accuracy. 4 = Rough estimate; accurate to 25-50%. 5 = Guesstiamte; to nearest order of magnitude.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2008-12-15 - record updated by Bruno Danis to add IDN Nodes related to SCAR-Marbin. 2013-07-11 - record updated by Dave Connell to update citation information. 2022-05-02 - record updated by Dave Connell for ISO compliance.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/FAUNA_PENGUIN_COLONY
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- dd9e0075-67f9-45c2-9af7-a38371a18b0c
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2022-05-02T07:13:18
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/FAUNA_PENGUIN_COLONY
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2006-10-19T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2022-05-02
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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