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SNPEMAWSON04-05

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Citation
Olivier, F. (2012) A GIS dataset of Snow Petrel nests mapped in the Mawson region during the 2004-2005 season, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/5d2d34ed7acb4, Accessed: 2026-07-27
Title
A GIS dataset of Snow Petrel nests mapped in the Mawson region during the 2004-2005 season
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
DOI
doi:10.26179/5d2d34ed7acb4
Created Date
2005-10-14
Revision Date
2019-07-16
Expected Date of Data Release
2012-10-11
Data Version
1
Parent record
None

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    Description

    Very little information is known about the distribution and abundance of Snow petrels at the regional and local scales. This dataset contains the locations of Snow petrel nests, mapped in the Mawson region during the 2004-2005 season. Location of nests were recorded with handheld Trimble Geoexplorer GPS receivers, differentially corrected and stored as an Arcview point shapefile (ESRI software).
    Descriptive information relating to each bird nest was recorded and a detailed description of the data fields is provided in the description of the shapefile (word document). A text file also provides the attribute information (formatted for input into R statistical software).

    This work has been completed as part of ASAC project 2704 (ASAC_2704).

    Fields recorded.

    Species
    Activity
    Type
    Entrances
    Slope
    Remnants
    Latitude
    Longitude
    Date
    Snow
    Eggchick
    Cavitysize
    Cavitydepth
    Distnn
    Substrate
    Comments
    SitedotID
    Aspect
    Firstfred

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    Access

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

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -67.3
    Southernmost:
    -67.6

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    62.25
    Easternmost:
    63.5

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

    • ACTIVITY
    • ASPECT
    • EGG
    • DATE
    • ENTRANCES
    • COMMENTS
    • GIS
    • LONGITUDE
    • SLOPE
    • REMNANTS
    • PAGODROMA NIVEA
    • LATITUDE
    • SNOW PETREL
    • SNOW
    • SPECIES
    • SUBSTRATE
    • TYPE
    • SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION

    Locations

    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > MAWSON
    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > HOLME BAY
    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > FRAMNES MOUNTAINS
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

    Platforms

    • FIELD SURVEYS

    Instruments

    • Global Positioning System
    • GPS RECEIVERS

    Researchers

    • olivier, frederique (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT,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=SNPEMAWSON04-05 when using these data.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • BIOTA

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD/AU
      • CEOS
      • AMD

      Metadata Revision History

        2009-03-17 - record updated by Dave Connell after data were supplied by Frederique Olivier. 2012-06-01 - record updated by Dave Connell - distribution info corrected. 2012-10-11 - record updated by Dave Connell after revised data were provided by David Smith. 2019-07-16 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

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