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Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean
Citation
Contact: Watts, Dave ; Raymond, Ben
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
This dataset comprises data on the distribution and abundance of seabirds in the Southern Indian Ocean since 1980/81.
Approximately 150000 observations of 26 main species were made from the 1980/81 to 2005/06 seasons. A subset is served by SCAR-MarBIN (ca. 90,000 records).
This work was completed as part of ASAC project 2208 (ASAC 2208).
Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Birds
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Marine birds, ISW, Indian Ocean, PS, Southern Ocean, Aves
Geographical coverage
ISW, Indian Ocean [Marine Regions]
PS, Southern Ocean [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
1981 - 2005
Taxonomic coverage
Aves [WoRMS]
Parameters
Count
Physicochemical environmental variables
Presence of biota
Contributors
Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), more, database developer, data manager
Woehler, Eric
Watts, Dave
Raymond, Ben
Related datasets
Published in:
AntOBIS: Antarctic Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset information:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-16
Information last updated: 2015-08-28
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