Locations of pinniped breeding colonies in the Falkland Islands
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Last Updated | December 21, 2020, 10:01 (PST) |
| Created | January 30, 2020, 05:20 (PST) |
| Region | Falkland Islands |
| Language | eng |
| Topic Category | Biota; flora and/or fauna in natural environment |
| Temporal Extent Start | 2003-01-01 |
| Temporal Extent End | 2015-12-31 |
| Dataset Reference Date | 2015 |
| Lineage | The sea lion data is from Alistair Baylis based on an island-wide survey (in summer 2013-14) (see Baylis, A.M., Orben, R.A., Arnould, J.P., Christiansen, F., Hays, G.C., and Staniland, I.J. (Accepted). Disentangling the cause of a catastrophic population decline in a large marine mammal. Ecology). The elephant seal breeding locations are from the Elephant Seal research Group and the fur seal data were digitised from publications (Baylis, A.M., Arnould, J.P., and Staniland, I.J. (2014). Diet of South American fur seals at the Falkland Islands. Marine Mammal Science 30, 1210-1219) estimates based on anecdotal numbers found in books, reports or papers. For instance 625 elephant seal pups were born on Sea Lion Island in 2013-14. The total Falklands population of fur seals is estimated at approximately 19,000 with 75% of these animals breeding in the Jason Islands, and in general a 17.7% of pinniped populations is made of lactating females i.e. equal to the number of pups born annually. Therefore an estimate pup production was calculated and was distributed across locations with 75 % across the Jason Islands colonies and the remainder equally placed in between the other locations. The values for fur seals were estimated to allow modeling of important areas for marine megafauna in the MSP project and are not to be used for monitoring as they do not represent actual figures on-the-ground counts. The attributes for each point location are: Species, Location (the name of the island or area), Count (the number of pups born at the colony), and Year (the year the count was conducted or estimated for). |
| West Longitude | 187939.31 |
| South Latitude | 4135629.42 |
| East Longitude | 449777.14 |
| North Latitude | 4340527.35 |
| Spatial Reference System | UTM 21S WGS84 |
| Responsible Organisation Name | Hidden (personal data protection) |
| Contact Mail Address | Hidden (personal data protection) |
| Responsible Party Role | Hidden (personal data protection) |
| Access Limitations | Restricted, send data request to data owner |
| Use Constraints | Open, but copyright and/or Intellectual Property Rights apply |
| Resource Reference | Please acknowledge data source as: SAERI Marine Spatial Planning. A Darwin PLUS Initiative project funded by the UK government |
| Data Format | shape |
| Update Frequency | not planned |
| Accuracy | Between 100m and 2km depending on data source used for making the dataset |
| Resource Type | Dataset |
| Original Title | Hidden (internal use only) |
| Metadata Date | 2015-10-01 |
| Metadata Point of Contact | datamanager@saeri.ac.fk |
| Contact Consent | Contact details hidden |
| Unique Resource ID | FK-SAERI-218 |