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Adelie Penguin Dietary Data From Bechervaise Island Antarctica

Australian Antarctic Data Centre
KERRY, KNOWLES
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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=Adelie_diet_BI when using these data.

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The data are in two excel spreadsheets, and are publicly available for download from the provided URL. Although these data are not included, a large amount of other dietary data are available in the Southern Ocean Dietary Database (the link to which can be found at the provided URL).

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This dataset contains the results from surveys on the feeding habits of Adelie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) on Bechervaise Island, Mawson, Antarctica. Surveys have been conducted since 1991, and are ongoing to determine the diet composition and prey species of penguins.

Data for this project were compiled by Megan Tierney, as part of her PhD Thesis, and are presented in two excel spreadsheets.

Also provided in the Related URL section, is a link to a trophic database of "A compilation of dietary and related data from the Southern Ocean". This database contains a large amount of other publicly available diet related data collected as part of the Australian Antarctic program.

Issued: 1999-10-07

Data time period: 1991-01-01

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ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | Adelie Penguin | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | BIOSPHERE | BIRDS | CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA | EARTH SCIENCE | ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS | FIELD SURVEYS | GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR | PENGUINS | SPECIES PREDATION | SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS | USE/FEEDING HABITATS | VISUAL OBSERVATIONS | biota |

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