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Population dynamics of the wandering albatross on Macquarie Island and the...
From the abstract of one of the referenced papers: The estimated breeding population of wandering albatrosses on Macquarie Island increased from 17 in 1956 to a maximum of 97 in... -
Macquarie Island Seals GIS Dataset.
Seal colonies on Macquarie Island. This is a polygon dataset stored in the Geographical Information System (GIS). Attributes include the species name and whether breeding occurs... -
Anaesthetics and Ecology of the Southern Elephant Sea at Macquarie Island...
A variety of different chemical restraints, or anaesthetics, were trialed on Southern Elephant Seals at Heard Island and Macquarie Island. The trials were performed on female... -
Post weaning dispersal and survival in the southern elephant seal
The objectives for this project were: The project aims to quantify the patterns of dispersal and survival of newly weaned southern elephant seal pups to provide information on... -
12,000 year record of sea spray and minerogenic input from Emerald Lake,...
Reconstructed sea spray and minerogenic data for a 12,000 year lake sediment record from Emerald Lake, Macquarie Island. Proxies are based on biological (diatoms) and... -
Macquarie Island Flying Birds GIS Dataset.
Flying bird breeding colonies on Macquarie Island. This is a polygon dataset stored in the Geographical Information System (GIS). Attributes include the species name and the... -
The Annual Cycle of Reproductive and Stress Hormones in the Gentoo Penguins...
The only work that went ahead as part of this ASAC project was to look at Penguins restraint and stress level (see the referenced paper below). From the paper: During most... -
Macquarie Island: A window into the oceanic crust and upper mantle
Because of the inaccessibility of the deep-ocean floor, our knowledge about the composition and structure of the oceanic crust is very limited. Macquarie Island is the only... -
Effects of human activity on Gentoo penguins on Macquarie Island
This project empirically measures the effects of human activity on the behaviour and reproductive success of Gentoo penguins on Macquarie Island. This was achieved by 1)... -
Subset of data from the TAGS database of known age seals - Elephant Seals
This database is a compendium of histories of known age seals (Southern elephant) from observations across the Southern Ocean but focussed on Macquarie Island, Marion Island,... -
Tectonic, magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of ocean floor spreading at...
Macquarie Island offers a rare land-based cross-section through the deep ocean floor, which covers 60% of our Earth. It formed 11 million years ago as slow spreading crust,... -
Subset of data from the TAGS database of known age seals - Leopard Seals
This database is a compendium of histories of known age seals (leopard) from observations across the Southern Ocean but primarily focussed on Macquarie Island. Although the... -
Southern Elephant Seal Foraging in the Southern Ocean
Twenty three juvenile (8-14 months of age) southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina L.) from Macquarie Island were tracked during 1993 and 1995. Migratory tracks and ocean... -
Macquarie Island Penguin Colonies GIS Dataset
This is a polygon GIS dataset representing penguin colonies on Macquarie Island. The penguin species include Gentoo, King, Rockhopper and Royal. -
Food Consumption and Foraging Success of Free-ranging Southern Elephant Seals
Elephant seals use a suite of physiological and behavioural mechanisms to maximise the time they can be submerged. Of these hypo-metabolism is one of the most important, so this... -
Antarctic Climate Data Collected by Australian Agencies
NOTE - to access these data, please contact the AADC. The data can only be made available on request. This record provides a listing of meteorological data collected in the... -
Ecology and Zoogeography of Parasites of Antarctic Fish
The body surface, mouth, gills, internal organs and tissues of 368 teleost fish of 26 species from Prydz Bay, Heard Island, Macquarie Island, Davis Station and Casey Station in... -
Breeding biology of the Royal Penguin (Eudypted chrysolophus)at Macquarie...
The data are contained in a number of log books in hand written form (now scanned onto CD ROM. They were gathered according to a protocol updated annually by the Principal... -
Macquarie Island Cetacean Sightings and Strandings
This dataset is a record of sightings and strandings of cetaceans (mainly whales) at Macquarie Island. Results have been reported from 1968 to 1990 on an irregular basis. The... -
Assessment of the impact of human sewage effluent on benthic communities at...
Metadata record for data expected from ASAC Project 996 See the link below for public details on this project. The study investigated the effects of the small sewage outfall on...