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Seabird assemblages observed during the BROKE-West survey of the Antarctic coastline (30-80 E), January-March 2006
Entry ID: BROKE-West_Seabirds

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Summary
Abstract: Seabird surveys in January - March 2006 of a poorly known area of the Southern Ocean adjacent to the East Antarctic coast identified six seabird communities, several of which were comparable to seabird communities identified both in adjacent sectors of the Antarctic, and elsewhere in the Southern Ocean. These results support previous proposals that the Southern Ocean seabird community is ... View entire text
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Geographic Coverage
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Spatial coordinates   
  N: -53.0   S: -68.0   E: 80.0   W: 30.0

Parent DIF
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BROKE-West
Temporal Coverage
Start Date: 2006-01-03
Stop Date: 2006-03-12
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Platform
R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
SHIPS Ancillary Description
Quality Observations of the numbers and behaviours of all seabirds present within a 300m forward quadrant of the ship were recorded continuously while the vessel was underway during daylight hours. Ship-followers were excluded from all analyses following BIOMASS Working Party on Bird Ecology (1982) as these individuals bias abundance estimates and reduce statistical correlations between seabirds and the physical environment. Ship-followers typically associate with the vessel for extended periods, either following the vessel at the stern or circling the vessel, or both. Data for prions (Pachyptila spp.) and dark shearwaters (Puffinus griseus and P. tenuirostris) have been pooled as with previous analyses, as these are difficult to separate at sea.
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Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=BROKE-We... when using these data.
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Data Set Progress
COMPLETE
Data Center
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia Supplemental Info
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
Distribution
Distribution Media: HTTP
Fees: Free
Personnel
ERIC WOEHLER
Role: INVESTIGATOR
Role: TECHNICAL CONTACT
Email: eric.woehler at gmail.com
Contact Address:
Birds Tasmania
City: Hobart
Province or State: Tasmania
Postal Code: 7001
Country: Australia
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Publications/References
Eric J Woehler, Ben Raymond, Adrian Boyle, Andrew Stafford (2010), Seabird assemblages observed during the BROKE-West survey of the Antarctic coastline (30E-80E), January - March 2006, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 57, 9-10, 982-991, doi:doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.041, "BROKE-West" a Biological/Oceanographic Survey Off the Coast of East Antarctica (30-80E) Carried Out in January-March 2006
Creation and Review Dates
DIF Creation Date: 2012-06-20
Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-10-18

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