Metadata details
AAS_4088_Adelie_occupancy_Rookery_2015
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- Citation
- Southwell, C. and Emmerson, L. (2022) Adélie penguin occupancy survey of the Rookery Island Group, 2015, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.4225/15/58fd3fecbbd48, Accessed: 2026-06-04
- Title
- Adélie penguin occupancy survey of the Rookery Island Group, 2015
- Data Centre
- Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
- DOI
- doi:10.4225/15/58fd3fecbbd48
- Created Date
- 2017-04-24
- 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
Fourteen colonies with breeding Adélie colonies were mapped this season in the Rookery Island group between the 29th November and 14th of December 2015. 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, generally an average buffer distance of 2.5 meters was maintained between the mapper and breeding birds. However on Gibbney and Rookery Island one of the mappers was mapping at a distance between 3 and 5m. Buffer distances were reduced accordingly for the varying tracks to produce a combined average buffer distance of 2m in the final layer. Given this the boundary mapping for these two islands may vary in accuracy.
Note on Gibbney and Giganteus there were at least two subcolonies on both islands that were mapped but the density of breeding birds in these mapped sections was much less than that in the surrounding colonies. Subcolonies were tagged with L at the end of their name in the track files. This will not be shown in the final layer and if information on this is needed then the subcolonies can be identified from the original track data or created shapefiles for the individual subcolonies on the island.
Please refer to the Seabird Conservation Team Data Sharing Policy for use, acknowledgement and availability of data prior to downloading data.
Access
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
Temporal Coverages
- Start date: 2015-11-29 - Stop date: 2015-12-14
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_Rookery_2015 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
- OCEANS
- BIOTA
Dataset Language
- English
Orignating Centre
- Australian Antarctic Division
Dataset Progress
- COMPLETE
IDN Node
- AMD/AU
- CEOS
- AMD
Metadata Revision History
2017-04-24 - 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.
