Data · collection
Wake Forest University Satellite Tracking - Tern Island Albatrosses 1999
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
Satellite telemetry was used to identify the foraging distributions of two congeneric species of albatrosses that nest in the tropics / subtropics.
Description
Breeding Black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes) and Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) 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).
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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 they should be considered separately.
Links
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- iobis.org /mapper/?dataset=2210 ↗
Access data from the OBIS and OBIS-SEAMAP websites.
download · from NASA CMR
- seamap.env.duke.edu /datasets/detail/314 ↗
Access data from the OBIS and OBIS-SEAMAP websites.
download · from NASA CMR
Documentation and papers
- seamap.env.duke.edu ↗
Ocean Biogeographic Information System - Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations (OBIS-SEAMAP)
documentation · from NASA CMR
- Biological Data Profile usgs.gov/core_science_systems/csas/metadata/standards.html ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- The ArcGIS metadata format desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/metadata/the-arcgis-metadata-format… ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) iobis.org ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- VIEW RELATED INFORMATION seamap.env.duke.edu/prod/services/datasets/show_xml_metadata.php?datasetid=314 ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214586729-SCIOPS.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1214586729-SCIOPS.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Albatross · Animals Vertebrates · Birds · NOT APPLICABLE · RADIO TRANSMITTERS
Provenance · 1 source records, 12 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C1214586729-SCIOPS | 12 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:not-applicable | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/animals-vertebrates | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/animals-vertebrates/birds | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/biological-classification/animals-vertebrates/birds/albatross | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:radio-transmitters | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |