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.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,015 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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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).
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
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 |
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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
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Geographic Coverage
Oceans
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-56.181, -87.893], North East [53.778, 30.29] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Species | Puffinus gravis (Great Shearwater) |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 2009-09-30 / 2010-11-25 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | Migration and foraging ecology of Greater Shearwater (aggregated per 1-degree cell) |
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Funding | NA |
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Sampling Methods
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Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
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Collection Data
Collection Name | zd_550 |
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Collection Identifier | zd_550 |
Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
Purpose | Not available |
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Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_550_1deg |