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Gridded Species Distribution, Version 1: Birds of the Americas Original Grids

Entry ID: CIESIN_SEDAC_SPECIES_BIRD_ORIG

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Summary

Abstract: The Original Grids of the Gridded Bird Species Distribution of the Americas are converted 1- kilometer grid cell data in the Geographic Coordinate System (GCS) that cover North America, South America and the Caribbean Islands. The input vector data were created by a consortium led by Natureserve. The grids are produced by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information ...

Purpose: To provide a gridded version of existing vector maps of bird species distribution at 1- kilometer that preserves the original coding (1=Extant, 2= Possibly present, 3=Probably extinct, 4=Extinct, 5=Extirpated purposely, 6=Occurs on indicated island chain, and 7=Subfossil/fossil).

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Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 90.0

S: -90.0

E: 0.0

W: -180.0

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)/Columbia University, and NatureServe

Dataset Title: Gridded Species Distribution, Version 1: Birds of the Americas Original Grids

Dataset Release Date: 2008

Dataset Release Place: Palisades, NY

Dataset Publisher: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC)

Data Presentation Form: raster, tabular

Online Resource: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/species-v1-americas-bird-...

Parent DIF

This data set description is a member of a collection. The collection is described in
SIPEX_II

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 2012-09-22

Stop Date: 2012-11-11

Location Keywords

OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN

CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Science Keywords

CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE

CRYOSPHERE > SEA ICE > ICE DEPTH/THICKNESS

ISO Topic Category

ENVIRONMENT

OCEANS

Platform

R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis

Instrument

VISUAL OBSERVATIONS

Project

ASPECT > Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate

Quality The observation location sometimes could not be occupied due to requirements by the ship's crew or the presence of fellow expeditioners.

Ship movement between SIPEX 2012 stations was often not sufficient for hourly observations to be conducted as the required minimum separation from the previous observation point was not achieved.

Access Constraints These data are not yet publicly available.

Use Constraints This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=SIPEX_II... when using these data.

Ancillary Keywords

SIPEX

ASPECT

Data Set Progress

IN WORK

Originating Center

Australian Antarctic Division

Data Center

Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia

Data Center URL: http://data.aad.gov.au

Data Center Personnel
Name: DATA OFFICER AADC Phone: +61 3 6232 3244 Fax: +61 3 6232 3351 Email: metadata at aad.gov.au Contact Address: Australian Antarctic Division 203 Channel Highway City: Kingston Province or State: Tasmania Postal Code: 7050 Country: Australia