Macquarie Island Fur Seal Database

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Australian Antarctic Data Centre on May 13, 2021 Australian Antarctic Data Centre

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Description

The dataset includes data on all fur seals tagged at Macquarie Island since 1986. The dataset includes information on the sex and species of individuals, information on their reproductive histories, resight data and tagging history.

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 5,771 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://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/AADC-00859

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: 82eee8cc-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/AADC-00859 ASCII DIF 9.9

Contacts

Simon Goldsworthy
  • Originator
  • AADC Manager
South Australian Aquatic Sciences Centre
  • 2 Hamra Ave
5024 West Beach
SA
AU
  • +61882075400
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

Macquarie Island

Bounding Coordinates South West [-54.62, 158.86], North East [-54.62, 158.86]

Project Data

No Description available

Title Macquarie Island Fur Seal Database

The personnel involved in the project:

Simon Goldsworthy
  • Principal Investigator

Collection Data

Collection Name Macquarie Island Fur Seal Database
Collection Identifier http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/AADC-00859
Parent Collection Identifier Not applicable

Additional Metadata

Marine, harvested by OBIS.

Alternative Identifiers 82eee8cc-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=furseals_mi