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Adelie penguin colonies in the Robinson Group, Antarctica: surveys conducted during 2005/06 and 2006/07

Australian Antarctic Division
Southwell, C. ; SOUTHWELL, COLIN
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GPS surveys of Adelie Penguin colonies in the Robinson Group, Antarctica were carried out by field biologists from the Australian Antarctic Division during the 2005/06 and 2006/07 seasons. In 2005/06 point data were collected representing the presence or absence of colonies on the islands. The data were collected by Matt Low and Lisa Meyer. In 2006/07 polygon data were collected representing the colonies on the islands. The data were collected by Matt Low and Rhonda Pike. The biologists were working on a project led by Dr Colin Southwell of the Australian Antarctic Division.

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Progress Code: completed
Statement: These data were collected using Garmin handheld GPS receivers, except for the colony boundaries at Auster Islands and Macey islands which were collected using a Trimble Geoexplorer and the data subsequently differentially corrected. The data representing the colonies were 'cleaned' after conversion to GIS format to remove any overlaps in polygons and to remove small insignificant polygons resulting from crossovers of the polygon boundaries. For data quality information about any of the polygons in the 2006/07 data use the Qinfo number for that polygon in the attribute table of the shapefile to search at the 'Search datasets - quality' tab at the 'Search SCAR Feature Catalogue' url below. The dates provided in temporal coverage are approximate only.

Data time period: 2005-09-30 to 2007-03-31

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AMD | AMD/AU | Adelie Penguin | CEOS | CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > Robinson Group | DMR > GPS Bistatic Radar Delay Mapping Receiver | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > BIRDS > PENGUINS | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > ECOSYSTEMS > TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS > ISLANDS | FIELD INVESTIGATION | FIELD SURVEYS | GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR | GIS | GPS | GPS > Global Positioning System | GPS RECEIVERS | Robinson Group | biota |

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Download Adelie Penguin presence/absence data collected during the 2005/06 season (GET DATA)

uri : https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/1538/download

Download Adelie Penguin colonies at Auster Islands and Macey Islands: Trimble GPS data collected during the 2006/07 season (GET DATA)

uri : https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/2012/download

Download Adelie Penguin colonies at the Robinson Group: shapefile created from GPS data collected during the 2006/07 season (GET DATA)

uri : https://data.aad.gov.au/eds/2308/download

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