Collection Details
APIS - Antarctic Pack Ice Seals 1994-1999, plus historical data from the 1980'sView list of biodiversity data collections |
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Collection Details
- Custodian
- Colin Southwell
- Collection Acronym
- APIS
- Description
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This dataset contains Antarctic Pack Ice seal (APIS) observations (both ship and aerial based) collected between 1994 and 2000.
This data also includes some historic data collected between 1985 and 1987. The four species of Antarctic pack ice seals (crabeater, leopard, Weddell, and Ross seals) are thought to comprise up to 50% or more of the world's total biomass of seals. As long-lived, top level predators in Southern Ocean ecosystems, pack ice seals are scientifically interesting because they can assist in monitoring shifts in ecosystem structure and function, especially changes that occur in sensitive polar areas in response to global climate changes.
- Domain
- Marine
- Taxa Groups
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Seals,
List 11 taxa from this collection - Collection Status
- Data collection complete
- DiGIR Details
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See International activities tab for details on publishing data to other repositories.
Resource Code: - apis Resource Name: - APIS - Antarctic Pack Ice Seals 1994-1999, plus historical data from the 1980's Keywords: - adelie penguin, age, apnoea, approach, arousel level, blood, blubber, crabeater seal, date, distance, drugs, emperor penguins, girth, group, hair, heart rate, latitude, longitude, length, leopard seal, minke whale, movement, nasal swab, number, orca whale, pack ice, penguin, respiration rate, ross seal, scat, seals, sedation level, sex, skin, sothern elephant seal, sothern ocean, species, time, time at depth, tooth, wcid, weddel seal, weight, whale, width, wildlife computers identification name 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
Data Details
- Data links
- Search the 9,271 observations belonging to this collection.
- Map
- No map exists.
- Spatial Coverage
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58° 55' 59.9" S to 69° 20' 25.8" S | -58.9333° to -69.3405° 48° 52' 59.9" E to 150° 25' 31.4" E | 48.8833° to 150.4254° - Date Range of Collection
- 11-Nov-1984 to 10-Jan-2000
- Data collected from the following voyage(s)
Voyage Observation count Search 1984/85 V3 (details) 19 search 
1985/86 V1 ADBEX3 (details) 591 search 1987/88 V3 (details) 561 search 1994/95 V1 BESET (details) 157 search 1994/95 V2 (details) 143 search 1995/96 V2 (details) 427 search 1996/97 V2 LIMP (details) 810 search 1997/98 V2 ON-ICE (details) 602 search 1997/98 V4 SEXY (details) 1362 search 1998/99 V4 SEXY II (details) 676 search 1999/2000 V4 (details) 5157 search - Metadata
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APIS - APIS - Antarctic Pack Ice Seals 1994-1999, plus historical data from the 1980's
Tracking_EDP - Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins in the Terra Nova Bay Region Antarctica