Metadata details
ASAC_2940_Bird_Island
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- Citation
- Lea, M.A., Hindell, M.A., Arthur, B., Trathan, P., Staniland, I., Malone, D., and Edwards, E. (2017) Bird Island female Antarctic fur seal geolocation tracking data, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/531FD86AAF564, Accessed: 2026-05-13
- Title
- Bird Island female Antarctic fur seal geolocation tracking data
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.4225/15/531FD86AAF564
- Created Date
- 2014-03-04
- Revision Date
- 2017-08-14
- Parent record
- ASAC_2940
Datasets and documents
Related links
Description
To quantify the post-breeding movements of adult female Antarctic females (Arctocephalus gazella) we tracked females using Biotrack GLS (geolocation) data loggers. Females were captured towards the end of the lactation period (March/April) and the GLS tag, affixed to a Dalton flipper tag, was deployed in the trailing edge of the left or right foreflipper. Tags were generally retrieved just prior to or after giving birth the following season. Data files were extracted from the tags using BASTrak software.
.lig - light data
.tem - temperature data
.act - activity data
Metadata for each individual include:
Site, year, GLS ID, sex, age, deployment site, lat and long of deployment site, flipper tag number, deployment and retrieval times (GMT).
Access
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 2008-04-04 - Stop date: 2008-12-20
- Start date: 2009-03-17 - Stop date: 2010-01-03
Spatial Coverages
Science Keywords
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CARNIVORES
- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > SPECIES LIFE HISTORY
Additional Keywords
- Fur Seals
- Geolocation
- Tracking
- South Georgia
- Bird Island
Locations
- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
Platforms
- FIELD INVESTIGATION
- FIELD SURVEYS
Instruments
- GPS RECEIVERS
- Global Positioning System
Researchers
- lea, mary-anne (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- hindell, mark (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- arthur, benjamin (TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- trathan, phil (INVESTIGATOR)
- staniland, iain (INVESTIGATOR)
- malone, donald (TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- edwards, ewan (TECHNICAL CONTACT)
- connell, dave (DIF AUTHOR)
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=ASAC_2940_Bird_Island when using these data.
