Diet results from Adelie penguins at Bechervaise Island and Whitney Point, 2012/13

Occurrence
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June 3, 2022
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Description

These spreadsheets provide the proportions of prey DNA sequences in the scats of Adelie penguins at Bechervaise Island and Whitney Point in East Antarctica. Samples were collected during two stages of the breeding season: mid brood guard (Bechervaise Island-January 4-6th 2013, Whitney Point 23- 28th December 2012) and mid creche (23-26th January 2013). Scat samples were collected from breeding birds, chicks and non-breeders at Bechervaise Island and breeding birds and chicks at Whitney Point. 'Breeders' were identified as individuals brooding or provisioning a chick, whereas 'non-breeders' were usually pairs that had reoccupied the colony and were building new practice nests with no chick present. Non-breeders in the colony include immature birds that have not yet bred and mature birds of breeding age that did not breed in a particular season (e.g. no partner or insufficient body condition) DNA from each sample was extracted and sequenced as per the protocols in the following paper: Jarman, S.N., McInnes, J.C., Faux, C., Polanowski, A.M., Marthick, J., Deagle, B.E., Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. 2013 Adelie penguin population diet monitoring by analysis of food DNA in scats. PLoS One 8, e82227. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082227). The Raw Data spreadsheet contains the proportion of each prey group of each individual sample, plus the total sequence count of prey items. Only samples with greater than 100 prey sequences are included in the dataset. The summary datasheet contains only prey taxa which contained greater than 2% of the proportion of sequences. Analysis of these data have been published in: McInnes JC, Emmerson L, Southwell C, Faux C, Jarman SN. (2016) Simultaneous DNA-based diet analysis of breeding, non-breeding and chick Adelie Penguins http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150443Quality: 2018-09-24 - The original datasheet was reformatted to fit OBIS/GBFI/IPT Biodiversity.AQ standardS. The new datasheet 'AdeliePenguinDiet2012_2013.csv" provides datasetID, recordNumber, resourceID, relatedResourceID, relationshipOfResource, relationshipAccordingTo, eventRemarks, eventDate, year, month, day, locality, locationID, verbatimLatitude, verbatimLongitude, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, continent, countryCode, preparation, identificationQualifier, occurrenceStatus, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, basisOfRecord, behaviour, and institutionCode. The lowest taxonomical rank of the species identified that could be determined is provided, after matched in WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species).

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 2,436 records.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Jarman SN, McInnes JC, Faux C, Polanowski AM, Marthick J, et al. (2013) Adelie Penguin Population Diet Monitoring by Analysis of Food DNA in Scats. PLoS ONE 8(12): e82227.

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Australian Antarctic Data Centre. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: f885d3e2-0310-43f5-a902-50dda62e6a68.  Australian Antarctic Data Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Atlas of Living Australia.

Keywords

Occurrence; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

Point of truth metadata record https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4088_Adelie_Diet ASCII DIF 9.9

Contacts

Julie McInnes
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Investigator
Australia Antarctic Division
  • 203 Channel Highway
7050 Hobart
Tasmania
AU
DATA OFFICER AADC
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Australia Antarctic Division
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Tasmania
AU
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Louise Emmerson
  • Point Of Contact
  • investigator
Australia Antarctic Division
  • 203 Channel Highway
7050 Hobart
Tasmania
AU
Colin Southwell
  • Point Of Contact
  • Investigator
Australia Antarctic Division
  • 203 Channel Highway
7050 Hobart
Tasmania
AU
Simon Jarman
  • Point Of Contact
  • Investigator
Australia Antarctic Division
  • 203 Channel Highway
7050 Hobart
Tasmania
AU
Dave Connell
  • Distributor
Australia Antarctic Division
  • 203 Channel Highway
7050 Hobart
Tasmania
AU

Geographic Coverage

Samples were obtained from penguin colonies at Bechervaise Island and Whitney Point in East Antarctica

Bounding Coordinates South West [-67.583, 62.816], North East [-64.774, 110.528]

Taxonomic Coverage

Invertebrates were identified from fecal samples of Adelie penguin scats by DNA sequences

Class Actinopterygii, Gastropoda, Scyphozoa
Order Calanoida, Amphipoda
Family Euphausiidae
Species Pygoscelis adeliae (Adelie Penguin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2012-12-23 / 2012-12-28
Start Date / End Date 2013-01-04 / 2013-01-06
Start Date / End Date 2013-01-23 / 2013-01-26

Bibliographic Citations

  1. McInnes JC, Emmerson L, Southwell C, Faux C, Jarman SN. 2016 Simultaneous DNA-based diet analysis of breeding, non-breeding and chick Adélie penguins.R. Soc. open sci.3: 150443. doi:10.1098/rsos.150443

Additional Metadata

Marine, harvested by OBIS

Alternative Identifiers f885d3e2-0310-43f5-a902-50dda62e6a68
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=adelie_diet