Description
Original provider: Wake Forest University Dataset credits: National Science Foundation Abstract: Satellite telemetry was used to identify the foraging distributions of two congeneric species of albatrosses that nest in the tropics/subtropics. Breeding black-footed albatross (<i>Phoebastria nigripes</i>) and Laysan albatross (<i>Phoebastria immutabilis</i>) nesting in Tern Island (Northwest Hawaiian Islands) and tracked during the 1998 breeding season (January - June) performed foraging trips to continental shelves off North America. Black-footed albatross made long trips to the west coast of North America (British Columbia to California). Laysan albatross traveled primarily to the north of the Hawaiian Islands, and reached the waters of the Aleutian Islands and the Gulf of Alaska. These albatross species mixed short and long trips during the chick-rearing period (February - June), but engaged in short foraging trips during the brooding period (within 18 days after chick hatched, January - February).<br><br> In 1999, the breeding success of both albatross species was depressed, with a large-scale failure for the Laysan albatross. Out of nine black-footed albatross tracked, two chicks died during this study. Out of sixteen Laysan albatross tracked, the eggs of seven birds did not hatch and eight chicks died during the tracking study. Due to this massive breeding failure, the satellite tracked birds abandoned their colony and dispersed widely across the North Pacific Ocean. Thus, the 1998 (central-place foraging) and 1999 (dispersal from colonies) tracking data should be considered separately.
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 4,630 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Anderson, D. 2013. Tern Island Albatrosses - 1999. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/ab0fa19c.
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: 91a26b5b-8cc6-490a-a1bc-bf37e672ac72. 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; albatross; satellite tracking; North Pacific Ocean; Hawaii; Radio transmitters; Animal movements; Occurrence; Observation
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/314 UTF-8 Interactive map |
|---|---|
| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/314/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/314/eml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Primary contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
Geographic Coverage
Western Pacific sector
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [18.054, 140.054], North East [51.253, 180] |
|---|
Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Phoebastria immutabilis (Laysan albatross), Phoebastria nigripes (Black-footed albatross) |
|---|
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1999-01-15 / 1999-06-10 |
|---|
Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Tern Island Albatrosses - 1999 |
|---|---|
| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
|---|
Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_314 |
|---|---|
| Collection Identifier | zd_314 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Bibliographic Citations
- Fernandez P., D.J. Anderson, P.R. Sievert, and K. Huyvaert. 2001. Foraging destinations of three low-latitude albatross (Phoebastria) species. Journal of Zoology254: 391-404. http://wfu.edu/~djanders/labweb/reprints/Fernandez%20et%20al%202001.pdf
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS. These albatross were tracked using PTT-100 Argos transmitters (Microwave Telemetry, Columbia, MD) operating at a 90-second repetition rate and programmed to operate on a 8:24 h ON:OFF duty cycle. Transmitter bench-tests before deployment revealed that the Argos location quality classes (lcs) had the following median position errors, expressed in kilometers: lc B (8.46), lc A (3.29), lc 0 (4.80), lc 1 (1.96), lc 2 (0.49), and lc 3 (0.26).
The low-quality class B locations were discarded because they mis-represented the telemetry tracks. Thus, this dataset includes 4635 high-quality locations (lc classes A or better) with median positional errors <4 km.
| Purpose | The 1999 data provided information on albatross movements during a year of depressed reproductive success, when many birds abandoned the colony. An understanding on the interplay between the distribution and the reproductive success of North Pacific albatrosses has important implications for assessing how oceanographic variability influences their population dynamics.<br><br> We thank C. Alexander, L. Carsten, P. Fernández, F. Juola, P. Sievert, A. Viggiano and S. Wang for assistance in the field, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for logistical support. This research was funded by National Science Foundation grant DEB 9629539 to D. Anderson. |
|---|---|
| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.82144/ab0fa19c |
| https://www.gbif.org/dataset/91a26b5b-8cc6-490a-a1bc-bf37e672ac72 | |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/314 | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/b578c2df-bfbb-460b-963a-d1a9d117c2dc | |
| 91a26b5b-8cc6-490a-a1bc-bf37e672ac72 | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_314 |