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AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Robinson_2006

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Citation
Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (2022) Adélie penguin occupancy survey of the Robinson Group, 2006, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/590036ce1f0a3, Accessed: 2026-06-04
Title
Adélie penguin occupancy survey of the Robinson Group, 2006
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.4225/15/590036ce1f0a3
Created Date
2017-04-26
Revision Date
2025-10-08
Expected Date of Data Release
2022-10-11
Data Version
1
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 islands with larger populations were subsequently mapped for abundance surveys by circumnavigating the perimeter of sub-colonies on foot while carrying a Garmin GPS (Legend Cx or Vista C) to log the track taken. The person walking around the sub-colonies maintained a buffer distance of 2-5m between themselves and the penguins at the sub-colony boundary. This buffer distance was reduced to between 1 and 4m in the final shapefiles.

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    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -67.435
    Southernmost:
    -67.445

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    63.435
    Easternmost:
    63.443

    Science Keywords

    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_2006 when using these data.

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    Project

      ISO Topic

      • BIOTA
      • OCEANS

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD/AU
      • AMD
      • CEOS

      Publications

      • Southwell, C., Low, M. and Emmerson, L. (2017) First comprehensive abundance survey of a newly discovered Adélie penguin breeding metapopulation in the Robinson Group of islands, Mac.Robertson Land, east Antarctica., Antarctic Science, 26(3), 265-266, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102013000928

      Metadata Revision History

        2017-04-26 - record created by Colin Southwell. 2022-10-11 - record updated by Dave Connell to publicly release the data. 2025-10-08 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

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