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Migration and foraging ecology of Greater Shearwater (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

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Description

Original provider: Marie C Martin; Dr Rob Ronconi; Dr R Veit Dataset credits: Data provider Migration and foraging ecology of Greater Shearwater Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Abstract: Greater Shearwater (Puffinus gravis), seabird Procellariiforme, breed on Tristan da Cunha island group, remote islands midway between South Africa and South America. They complete an extensive transatlantic migration each year to reach the Northern hemisphere. They spend their wintering/staging period in productive waters such as Gulf of Maine, Georges and Grand Banks, Bay of Fundy, Greenland and Europe. While still abundant, the location of the entire world’s population on a single island group makes these birds susceptible to environmental changes.

We will be following 22 greater (or great) shearwaters equipped with Satellite tags from Gough island/ Inaccessible island (United Kingdom) to the Northern Atlantic from October 2009 to October 2010.
Our first objective is tracking pre-laying exodus and foraging trips during incubation/ rearing period; second objective: identifying migration paths and finally, understanding foraging movements of these birds over the Northwest Atlantic until molt period.

Greater shearwaters have been observed feeding over tuna school during ship surveys since they share same prey type; subsequently, we will overlay shearwater tracks and tunas distribution to search for evidence of spatial co-occurrence between these 2 top predators to evaluate the importance of this mutual association.

This project is a collaboration between Dr Rob Ronconi (University of Dalhousie/ Halifax/ Canada), Marie C Martin and Dr Richard R. Veit (College of Staten Island/ City University of New York/ USA) supported by US Wildlife Fisheries Service, as well as David and Lucile Packard Grant (Birdlife International / Agreement for Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels). Technical logistic and field work has been made possible with the support of Dr Peter Ryan, Dr Rob Ronconi,and Sirtrack Ltd.

For further information, please contact Marie C Martin
entrecasteaux@hotmail.com or Dr Rob Ronconi: rronconi@dal.ca Supplemental information: Visit STAT's project page for additional information. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Veit M. 2021. Migration and foraging ecology of Greater Shearwater. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/550) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=452).

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 00d636a3-e132-44b6-ae77-0b1cadb3e59e.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/550 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/550/xml UTF-8 XML
STAT Project Page http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=452 UTF-8 Original web site

Contacts

Marie Veit
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Primary contact
Migration and foraging ecology of Greater Shearwater
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool

Geographic Coverage

Oceans

Bounding Coordinates South West [-56.181, -87.893], North East [53.778, 30.29]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Species Puffinus gravis (Great Shearwater)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2009-09-30 / 2010-11-25

Project Data

No Description available

Title Migration and foraging ecology of Greater Shearwater (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Marie Veit
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_550
Collection Identifier zd_550
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose Not available
Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_550_1deg