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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
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01488
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Keywords
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- NDGO0001
- NERC OAI Harvesting
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- NERC_DDC
- GCMD Parameter Valids
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Biosphere > Ecological Dynamics
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- Antarctic Fur seal
- Arctocephalus gazella
- Bird Island
- population counts
- Use limitation
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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
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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
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- 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
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- Protocol
- http
- Name
- GET DATA
- Function
- download Download
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- No special comments
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_01488 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2021-05-12
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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