Metadata details
AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Robinson_2013
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- Citation
- Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (2022) Adélie penguin occupancy survey of the Robinson Group, 2013, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/5901524b1c55c, Accessed: 2026-06-04
- Title
- Adélie penguin occupancy survey of the Robinson Group, 2013
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.4225/15/5901524b1c55c
- Created Date
- 2017-04-27
- Revision Date
- 2025-10-08
- Parent record
- AAS_4088_Adelie_breeding_colony_boundaries
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Description
An occupancy survey in November 2006 found a total of 29 islands in the Robinson Group of islands had populations of breeding Adélie penguins. The boundaries of breeding colonies at 27 of these were mapped in Nov 2006 for abundance surveys. Nine of these breeding sites were remapped on the 29th of November 2013 in conjunction with colony counts. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonies on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend Cx) to log the track taken. The person walking around the sub-colonies maintained a buffer distance of approximately 2.5m between themselves and the breeding birds along the sub-colony boundary. This buffer distance was reduced to approximately 2m in the final shapefiles.
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Access
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 2013-11-29 - Stop date: 2013-11-29
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS
- EARTH SCIENCE > CLIMATE INDICATORS > BIOSPHERIC INDICATORS > BREEDING PRODUCTIVITY
Additional Keywords
- COLONIES
- 4088
Locations
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
Platforms
- FIELD SURVEYS
- FIELD INVESTIGATION
Instruments
- GPS RECEIVERS
Researchers
- southwell, colin (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,DIF AUTHOR)
- emmerson, louise (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
Use Constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Robinson_2013 when using these data.
Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.
