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Antarctic Fur seal pup weight at Bird Island, South Georgia, from 1973 to 2020

The weight of Antarctic fur seal pups at Main Bay on Bird Island have been measured since 1973. 50 pups on the beach and 50 pups in the Tussac grass at the back of the beach are sexed and weighed in January, February and March each year.

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/00334
Date (Publication)
2022-03-22
Identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00334
Custodian
  British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Originator
  Polar Data Centre,Natural Environment Research Council,UK Research & Innovation - Forcada, Jaume
High Cross, Madingley , Cambridge , CB3 0ET , UK
+44 (0)1223 221400
Maintenance and update frequency
unknown 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
  • pup mass
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). Antarctic Fur seal pup weight at Bird Island, South Georgia, from 1973 to 2020 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/692FB625-EA99-4896-8354-B4DA490535BB

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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). Antarctic Fur seal pup weight at Bird Island, South Georgia, from 1973 to 2020 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/692FB625-EA99-4896-8354-B4DA490535BB

Metadata language
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Topic category
  • Biota
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Begin date
1973-01-16
End date
2020-03-08
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
Distribution format
Distributor
  Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsab092
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dataset Dataset

Domain consistency

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INSPIRE / Conformity_001

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Explanation
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No
Statement
No special comments
File identifier
GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00334 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2022-03-22
Metadata standard name
NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  British Antarctic Survey
+44 (0)1223 221400
Dataset URI
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00334
 
 

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