Collection Details
Snow Petrel nest census, Mawson region 2004/05View list of biodiversity data collections |
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Collection Details
- Custodian
- Frederique Olivier
- Collection Acronym
- Nest_Census_mawson_0405
- Description
- Very little information is known about the distribution and abundance of Snow petrels at the regional and local scales. This dataset contains locations of Snow petrel nests, mapped in the Mawson region during 2004-2005 season. Location of nests were recorded with handheld Trimble Geoexplorer GPS receivers, differentially corrected and stored as an Arcview point shapefile (ESRI software). Descriptive information relating to each bird nest was recorded and a detailed description of data fields is provided in description of the shapefile (word document). A text file also provide the attribute information (formatted for input into R statistical software).
- Domain
- Marine
- Taxa Groups
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Birds,
List 2 taxa from this collection - Collection Status
- Data collection complete
- Acknowledgements
- Frederique Olivier
- DiGIR Details
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Resource Code: - nest_census_mawson_0405 Resource Name: - Snow Petrel nest census, Mawson region 2004/05 Keywords: - census, nests, nest descriptions, occupancy, activity Basis of Record: - Observation For list of all collections published via DiGIR, see AADC DiGIR collections and the DiGIR harvesting point if you wish to harvest records
- Linked to the following Bioregions
Data Details
- Data links
- Search the 5,588 observations belonging to this collection.
- Map
- No map exists.
- Spatial Coverage
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67° 30' 51.8" S to 67° 55' 43.0" S | -67.5144° to -67.9286° 62° 28' 19.2" E to 63° 03' 47.9" E | 62.4720° to 63.0633° - Date Range of Collection
- 9-Dec-2004 to 13-Jan-2005
- Metadata
- SNPEMAWSON04-05 - A GIS dataset of Snow Petrel nests mapped in the Mawson region during the 2004-2005 season