University of Liverpool seabird tracking in Anguilla 2012-2015

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: University of Liverpool Dataset credits: Dr. Louise Soanes, University of Roehampton, UK Dr. Jonathan Green, University of Liverpool, UK Dr. Jenny Bright, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK Ms. Farah Mukhida, Anguilla National Trust Ms. Susan Zaluski, Jost Van Dykes Preservation Society, British Virgin Islands Abstract: The UK Overseas Territories of Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands are located in the north-west Lesser Antilles. Whilst mainland Anguilla lacks any large breeding seabird populations, its offshore cays excel in this area and are home to five globally and 12 regionally important populations. Four of Anguilla’s seven offshore cays are already designated as terrestrial important bird areas (IBAs) due to their important seabird colonies, with Dog Island being the second most important site for breeding seabirds in the region. The British Virgin Islands (composed of 60 cays) support two globally important populations of Magnificent frigatebird and Roseate tern and have three IBAs designated for breeding seabird populations. This study uses GPS tracking data collected from the guild of globally and regionally important seabird populations breeding within these two Territories to identify important foraging areas, and relate these to oceanographic variables and potential threats such as fishing activity and coastal/marine developments. This project is being led by the University of Liverpool (UK) in collaboration with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Anguilla National Trust, Jost Van Dyke Preservation Society and British Virgin Islands National Parks Trust, with support from the Anguillan Government’s Fisheries and Marine Resources Department and the BVI Conservation and Fisheries Department, and funded by the UK’s Darwin Plus Initiative.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Soanes, L. 2015. University of Liverpool seabird tracking in Anguilla 2012-2015. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/aef3a0fc.

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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: 291e47e6-1cb6-4211-9fbd-4f06accb1c37.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Marine Biology; Telemetry; Tagged animal; Marine Animal Survey; Seabirds; Animal tagging; Radio transmitters; Occurrence; Observation

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1279 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1279/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1279/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Louise Soanes
  • Owner ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
University of Liverpool
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Oceans

Bounding Coordinates South West [17.048, -66.62], North East [24.215, -58.04]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Species Fregata magnificens (Magnificent frigatebird), Onychoprion fuscatus (Sooty tern), Phaethon aethereus (Red-billed tropicbird), Sula dactylatra (Masked booby), Sula leucogaster (Brown booby)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2012-03-27 / 2015-03-30

Project Data

No Description available

Title University of Liverpool seabird tracking in Anguilla 2012-2015
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Louise Soanes
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1279
Collection Identifier zd_1279
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP