Counts of Antarctic fur seals from the special study beach at Bird Island South Georgia, from 1984 to 2019

Counts of Antarctic fur seal individuals encountered daily at the Special Study Beach (SSB) at Bird Island, South Georgia. The SSB demographic study started in 1982 and has continued with consistent data collection methods to date. Daily values include total counts of territorial males, new females, all females present in the afternoon, new pups born, and number of dead pups.



This work was funded by Natural Environment Research Council (UK) core funding to the British Antarctic Survey.

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Alternate title

Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01488
Date (Publication)
2021-05-12
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01488
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Custodian

NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre

Forcada, J.

pdc@bas.ac.uk

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
Keywords

  • NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

  • NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

  • EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics

BAS Free-text keywords

  • Antarctic Fur seal

  • Arctocephalus gazella

  • Bird Island

  • population counts
Use limitation

This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/



This data set should be cited as follows:

Forcada, J. (2021). Counts of Antarctic fur seals from the special study beach at Bird Island South Georgia, from 1984 to 2019 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/97ACEA13-B93D-4F3A-9CC7-F32E8DF86CC0

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This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/



This data set should be cited as follows:

Forcada, J. (2021). Counts of Antarctic fur seals from the special study beach at Bird Island South Georgia, from 1984 to 2019 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/97ACEA13-B93D-4F3A-9CC7-F32E8DF86CC0

Language
English
Topic category
  • Biota
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Begin date
1984-11-01
End date
2019-12-31
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
    Distributor contact
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Distributor
    OnLine resource
    Protocol Linkage Name

    http

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    Dataset

    Domain consistency

    Measure identification
    INSPIRE / Conformity_001

    Conformance result

    Title

    INSPIRE Data Specification on unknown theme Guidelines
    Date
    Explanation

    See the referenced specification
    Pass
    No
    Statement

    No special comments

    Metadata

    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01488 XML
    Metadata language
    English
    Hierarchy level
    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2021-05-12
    Metadata standard name

    NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
    Metadata standard version

    1.0
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

    		Point of contact
    Dataset URI

    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01488

     
     

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