Brief description
This is a scanned copy of the Vertebrate Ecologists report from Davis Station, 1987. The report was written by Michael Whitehead.The report covers:
Elephant Seals
- Census and tagging program
Weddell Seals
- Adult resight and pup tagging programs
Adelie Penguins
- Monitoring population size (aerial photographic survey, and ground survey/pattern of occupation of colonies)
- Diet study
- Survival/mortality study of eggs and chicks
- Seasonal fluctuation in adult condition and chick growth
- Energetics studies
- Swimming behaviour
- Food availability
Emperor Penguins
- Diet study
- Amanda Bay census
Seabird studies
- Southern Giant Petrel censusing and banding
- Rauer Island seabirds (reference breeding group counts/banding and 1987/88 Rauers program)
Lineage
Progress Code: completedData time period: 1987-01-01 to 1987-12-31
text: westlimit=77.83813; southlimit=-68.77221; eastlimit=78.84888; northlimit=-68.38300
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