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Predicting the distribution of foraging seabirds during a period of heightened environmental variability

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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Ecosystem data was collected as part of an integrated study of the continental shelf over a 2 and a half year period between November 2015 and January 2018. Data were collected bi-monthly through the spring to autumn (November, January, March, May). Stations were situated perpendicular to shelf bathymetry, ranging in depth from ~50 m to 100 m near the edge of the shelf and were located between 5 km and 15 km from land; encompassing from south Storm Bay, past the southern tip of Bruny Island and into the Southern Ocean (south-east Tasmania, Australia). Data collected focused on each trophic level, characterizing the zooplankton community, fish schools and marine predators. The overarching aim of the study was to investigate the effects of long term warming, and a marine heatwave event on zooplankton dynamics in terms of community response variables and the flow-on effects of changing lower-trophic level dynamics for top predators.

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Title Predicting the distribution of foraging seabirds during a period of heightened environmental variability
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e3fe0a3b-353a-4e94-93ff-bbf56d9a90d0
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
rhian.evans@utas.edu.au
Reference Period 15/10/2015 - 11/01/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Predicting the distribution of foraging seabirds during a period of heightened environmental variability". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/predicting-the-distribution-of-foraging-seabirds-during-a-period-of-heightened-environmental-va