Community composition of seabirds in the Prydz Bay region, derived from at-sea observations of seabirds.

Observations of seabirds at sea have been made by observers on Australian Antarctic ships in the Prydz Bay region during most seasons since 1980/81. Approximately 32000 observations of 26 main species were made from the 1980/81 to 2001/02 seasons. These observations provide a two-decade history of seabird activity in this region of the Antarctic. This project used clustering techniques to identify the communities within the seabird populations.

Summary of results

We found three distinct communities of seabirds within Prydz Bay. The first comprised all nine species of seabird which breed in the Prydz Bay area (emperor and Adelie penguins, snow, Cape, and Antarctic petrels, southern giant petrels, southern fulmars, Wilson's storm petrel, and south polar skuas). The second comprised those species which breed in sub-Antarctic or temperate regions and forage in Prydz Bay in the summer months (including many species of albatrosses and shearwaters). There was an overlap of these two communities which had a broad mix of species.

The spatial and temporal ranges of these communities is given in this data set.

The raw data for this dataset was generated through ASAC project 2208 - Distribution and abundance of seabirds in the Southern Indian Ocean, 1980/81+ (ASAC_2208_seabirds).

The fields in this dataset are:

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Day

Hour

Minute

Voyage

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Longitude

Assemblage

Constancy

Fidelity

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Community composition of seabirds in the Prydz Bay region, derived from at-sea observations of seabirds.
Date (Publication)
2003-05-26
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.26179/5d6e016997453

Originator

Woehler, E., Watts, D.J. and Raymond, B.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

WOEHLER, ERIC
Birds Tasmania
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia

Principal investigator

WATTS, DAVE JOHN
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Castray Esplanade
Hobart
Tasmania
7000
Australia

Principal investigator

RAYMOND, BEN
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

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

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
1980-07-01 2001-06-30
Title
Decadal-scale seabird assemblages in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica.
Date (Publication)
2003
Citation identifier
251

Author

Woehler, E.J., Raymond, B., and Watts, D.J.
Name
Marine Ecology Progress Series
Page
299-310
Title
Mining Antarctic scientific data: a case study
Date (Publication)
2002

Author

Raymond, B., Woehler, E.J.
Name
Simoff, S.J., Williams, G.J., Hegland, M. (ed.) Proceedings Australasian Data Mining Workshop
Page
29-36
Other citation details
3rd December 2002, Canberra, Australia
Title
Long-term study analyses seabird communities.
Date (Publication)
2002
Citation identifier
4

Author

Woehler, E., Raymond, B., Watts, D.
Name
Elizabeth Haywood, (ed.) Australian Antarctic Magazine
Page
23-24
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY DYNAMICS > COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
Keywords
  • ASSEMBLAGE
  • COMMUNITY COMPOSITION
  • CONSTANCY
  • DAY
  • FIDELITY
  • HOUR
  • LATITUDE
  • LONGITUDE
  • MINUTE
  • MONTH
  • PRYDZ BAY
  • SEABIRDS
  • VOYAGE
  • YEAR
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SHIPS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • CEOS
  • AMD
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

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This metadata record is publicly available.

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licence
Other constraints
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

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File type
Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
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Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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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 athttp://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=WOV_PRYDZ_BIRD_COMMUNITIES 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
Planned available datetime
2003-05-26T00:00:00
Units of distribution
kb
Transfer size
280
Distribution format
  • csv

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OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

Public information for ASAC project 2208

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2012-06-19 - record updated by Dave Connell to correct some URLs. 2019-09-03 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/WOV_PRYDZ_BIRD_COMMUNITIES

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

RAYMOND, BEN
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
910b35cc-b8ea-40bf-94ed-eb23d060bbb1

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2019-09-03T15:54:32

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/WOV_PRYDZ_BIRD_COMMUNITIES

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2003-05-22T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2019-09-03

Metadata standard

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

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