Biology of the Sea Elephant (Elephant Seal), Heard Island, 1951

This is a copy of a scanned document which contains a report, as well as tabulated data compiled by K. Brown on Sea Elephants (Elephant Seals) at Heard Island in 1951. The data are biological in nature, and deal with:

Breeding Season 1951

Formation of the Harems

Arrival of the Bulls

Arrival of the Cows

Birth of the Pups

Lactation

Moult

Pup Mortality

Fertilisation of the Cows

Break up of the Harems

Arrival of the Adolescents

Simple

Identification info

Alternate title
Biology of the Sea Elephant (Elephant Seal), Heard Island, 1951
Date (Publication)
2012-07-02
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:10.26179/5d0c77ffe997f

Originator

AADC

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

AADC, DATA OFFICER
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/sea_elephant_biology_1951

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
1951-08-29 1951-10-31
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POPULATION DYNAMICS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > POST-BREEDING PERIODS
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES LIFE HISTORY
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SURVIVAL RATES
Keywords
  • Elephant Seals
  • Breeding
  • Lactation
  • Moult
  • Harems
  • Mortality
  • Fertilisation
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • FIELD INVESTIGATION
  • FIELD SURVEYS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD
  • AMD/AU
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Resource constraints

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This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

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Other constraints
A copy of this report and its data are available from the provided URL.

Resource constraints

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Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
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Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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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=sea_elephant_biology_1951 when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

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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
2012-07-02T00:00:00
Units of distribution
MB
Transfer size
6.6
Distribution format
  • pdf

OnLine resource
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Statement
See the report for further information.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2012-07-02 - record created by Dave Connell from a document scanned by Fiona Gleadow. 2012-12-06 - record updated by Dave Connell for ANDS compliance (added Investigator). 2019-06-21 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/sea_elephant_biology_1951

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

CONNELL, DAVE J.
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
e2036d59-7767-4889-99b7-bb837faf07db

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2019-06-21T16:21:01

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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/sea_elephant_biology_1951

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2012-07-02T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2019-06-21

Metadata standard

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

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