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:
Year
Month
Day
Hour
Minute
Voyage
Latitude
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
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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
Publisher
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
-
- Biota
- Oceans
Extent
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
- Name
- Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Page
- 299-310
- Title
- Mining Antarctic scientific data: a case study
- Date (Publication)
- 2002
Author
- 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
- Name
- Elizabeth Haywood, (ed.) Australian Antarctic Magazine
- Page
- 23-24
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- 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
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- OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- These data are publicly 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 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
Distributor
- Fees
- free
- Planned available datetime
- 2003-05-26T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- kb
- Transfer size
- 280
- Distribution format
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- csv
- OnLine resource
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GET DATA
Download point for the data
- OnLine resource
-
PROJECT HOME PAGE
Public information for ASAC project 2208
- OnLine resource
-
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
AAD publication record
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Related publication
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Related publication
- OnLine resource
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Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset
- 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
Sponsor
Owner
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