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AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Bechervaise_2016

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Citation
Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (2022) Adélie penguin occupancy survey of Béchervaise Island, 2016, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/58f98c1c01029, Accessed: 2026-06-04
Title
Adélie penguin occupancy survey of Béchervaise Island, 2016
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.4225/15/58f98c1c01029
Created Date
2017-04-21
Revision Date
2025-09-29
Expected Date of Data Release
2022-10-10
Data Version
1
Parent record
AAS_4088_Adelie_breeding_colony_boundaries

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    Description

    Adélie penguin colony boundaries at Béchervaise Island were mapped by Matthew Pauza on the 21 Dec 2016. Subcolonies were mapped by circumnavigating the perimeter on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Etrex30) to record the track. When mapping the perimeter of the subcolonies a buffer distance of approximately 2.5 meters was maintained between the mapper and the breeding birds.
    This buffer distance was reduced by .5m to between 2m in the final shapefiles.

    Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.

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    Access

    These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -67.586
    Southernmost:
    -67.588

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    62.806
    Easternmost:
    62.808

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • COLONIES
    • 4088

    Locations

    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > BECHERVAISE ISLAND
    • 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_Bechervaise_2016 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.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • BIOTA
      • OCEANS

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD/AU
      • CEOS
      • AMD

      Metadata Revision History

        2017-04-21 - record created by Colin Southwell. 2022-10-10 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data. 2025-09-29 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

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