Snow Petrel nest census, Mawson region 2004/05
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Dataset credit

iOBIS and Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Abstract

Census of Mawson region nesting sites for snow petrels and some wilson storm petrels.. Very little information is known about the distribution and abundance of Snow petrels at the regional and local scales. This dataset contains locations of Snow petrel nests, mapped in the Mawson region during 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 data fields is provided in description of the shapefile (word document). A text file also provide the attribute information (formatted for input into R statistical software).

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

Original data obtained from http://data.aad.gov.au/digir/DiGIR.php and registered into iOBIS on 2009-05-26. This dataset on OBIS-SEAMAP is a subset of marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records from the dataset on iOBIS (Total number of records: 5588) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

References

See Metadata record http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/SNPEMAWSON04-05 Contact Data Centre for details.

Data on iOBIS. 2009. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=1432, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/display_collection.cfm?collection_id=112, obtained on 2009-05-27

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact Dave Watts

Attributes

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noteded below.

The attributes of this dataset are compatible with the OBIS Schema, then reformatted to the OBIS-SEAMAP schema. If you would like to get the data in the OBIS Schema, please visit iOBIS Portal.

SEAMAP ID103151432
Seabirds5,578
Marine mammals0
Sea turtles0
Total5,578
Date, Begin2004-12-09
Date, End2005-01-13
Latitudes-67.93 - -67.51
Longitudes62.47 - 63.06
PlatformVarious
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortN/A
SourceiOBIS
Updated2011-10-12