APIS - Antarctic Pack Ice Seals 1994-1999, plus historical data from the 1980s

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Australian Antarctic Data Centre on May 12, 2021 Australian Antarctic Data Centre
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Publication date:
May 12, 2021
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Description

This dataset contains Antarctic Pack Ice seal (APIS) data collected (both ship based and aerial) 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 percent 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.

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 9,271 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

See metadata record http://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/APIS

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

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: 82ec8f46-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a.  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; Observation; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

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

Contacts

Colin Southwell
  • Originator
  • Ecologist
Australian Antarctic Division
  • 203 Channel Highway
7050 Kingston
Tasmania
AU
DATA OFFICER AADC
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • DATA CENTER CONTACT
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
  • 203 Channel Highway
7050 Kingston
Tasmania
AU
  • +61 3 6232 3244

Geographic Coverage

East Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean

Bounding Coordinates South West [-69.34, 48.88], North East [-58.93, 150.43]

Project Data

No Description available

Title APIS - Antarctic Pack Ice Seals 1994-1999, plus historical data from the 1980's

The personnel involved in the project:

Colin Southwell
  • Principal Investigator

Collection Data

Collection Name APIS - Antarctic Pack Ice Seals 1994-1999, plus historical data from the 1980's
Collection Identifier http://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/APIS
Parent Collection Identifier Not applicable

Additional Metadata

Marine, harvested by OBIS.

Alternative Identifiers 82ec8f46-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=apis