Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean

Occurrence Observation
Latest version published by Australian Antarctic Data Centre on Jul 5, 2022 Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Home:
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2208_seabirds
Publication date:
July 5, 2022
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Seabird observations from ships either performing marine science work or taking personnel and cargo to various Antarctic stations. Incidental observations of whales and seals are also noted. This set also contains data from the BIOMASS cruises in the 1980's.

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 153,815 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:

Woehler E (2022): Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean. v1.3. Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Dataset/Occurrence. https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_2208_seabirds

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: 82dd797a-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/ASAC_2208_seabirds ASCII DIF 9.9

Contacts

Eric Woehler
  • Originator
  • AADC Manager
University of Tasmania (IMAS)
  • 20 Castray Esplanade
7004 Battery Point
TAS
AU
DATA OFFICER AADC
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • DATA CENTER CONTACT
Australian Antarctic Division
  • 203 Channel Highway
7050 Kingston
Tasmania
AU
  • +61 3 6232 3244

Geographic Coverage

The Southern Ocean, generally the East Antarctic sector south and west of Australia.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-69.87, -174.87], North East [38.28, 173.68]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1977-11-11 / 2006-04-11

Project Data

No Description available

Title Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean

The personnel involved in the project:

Eric Woehler
  • Principal Investigator

Collection Data

Collection Name Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean
Collection Identifier http://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/ASAC_2208_seabirds
Parent Collection Identifier Not applicable

Additional Metadata

Marine, harvested by OBIS.

Alternative Identifiers 82dd797a-f762-11e1-a439-00145eb45e9a
https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=seabirds