Descrição
The South Shetland Antarctic fur seal pup census dataset is part of long-term monitoring efforts in the South Shetland Islands archipelago (SSI), based at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island. These efforts, which include conducting annual synoptic census counts of South Shetland Antarctic fur seals (SSAFS) throughout the region, have been primarily carried out by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) United States Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program (U.S. AMLR). These census data will continue to be collected by the U.S. AMLR program, and updated yearly.
Recent studies have demonstrated Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) are composed of at least four distinct subpopulations (Bonin et al. 2013, Paijmans et al. 2020), including one breeding throughout the SSI. These SSAFS are the highest latitude population of otariids in the world. As such, this subpopulation faces a unique array of environmental and ecological challenges, harbors a disproportionately large reservoir of genetic diversity for the species, and has experienced catastrophic population decline between 2008 and 2023 (Krause et al. 2023 and references therein). Therefore, ensuring access to accurate and updated population data for SSAFS is particularly important for managers and decision makers. Due to regular absences by foraging females throughout the breeding season, and the irregular haul out patterns of males and subadults, the most informative measure of fur seal population size is to annually count pups (Payne, 1979; Bengtson et al., 1990). This dataset consists of all known total synoptic Antarctic fur seal pup counts (i.e., live and dead pups) from the SSI during the austral summers since 1959. Counts from the subset breeding colonies at Cape Shirreff (CS, reported with standard deviation (±SD) where available) and the San Telmo Islets (STI) are also included. Data were collected by the U.S. AMLR Program, unless otherwise indicated.
Most of these annual census counts were conducted during the optimal biological window (late December and early January) when the vast majority of pups are born, but have not yet been subject to substantial mortality (Krause et al. 2022). The authors are confident that all counts included in this dataset are comparable and representative of South Shetland Antarctic fur seal population trends. However, census dates, or at least best estimates of the census date, are included for all records for any parties wishing to apply correction factors.
The data are published as a standardized Darwin Core Archive, which contains count data for SSAFS pups from the specified locations during the specified seasons. This dataset is published under the license CC0. Please follow the guidelines from the SCAR Data Policy (SCAR, 2023) when using the data. If you have any questions regarding this dataset, please contact us via the contact information provided in the metadata or via data-biodiversity-aq@naturalsciences.be. Issues with the dataset can be reported at https://github.com/us-amlr/ssafs-pup-census.
This dataset is maintained by the U.S. Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program, funded by NOAA.
Registros de Dados
Os dados deste recurso de evento de amostragem foram publicados como um Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), que é o formato padronizado para compartilhamento de dados de biodiversidade como um conjunto de uma ou mais tabelas de dados. A tabela de dados do núcleo contém 60 registros.
Também existem 1 tabelas de dados de extensão. Um registro de extensão fornece informações adicionais sobre um registro do núcleo. O número de registros em cada tabela de dados de extensão é ilustrado abaixo.
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.
Versões
A tabela abaixo mostra apenas versões de recursos que são publicamente acessíveis.
Como citar
Pesquisadores deveriam citar esta obra da seguinte maneira:
Krause D J, Woodman S M, Goebel M E (2025). South Shetland Antarctic fur seal pup census. Version 1.2. SCAR - AntOBIS. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=usamlr-ssafs-pup-census&v=1.2
Direitos
Pesquisadores devem respeitar a seguinte declaração de direitos:
O editor e o detentor dos direitos deste trabalho é SCAR - AntOBIS. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
Este recurso foi registrado no GBIF e atribuído ao seguinte GBIF UUID: a02013f1-2eb2-4ecd-8f56-a455cbedce17. SCAR - AntOBIS publica este recurso, e está registrado no GBIF como um publicador de dados aprovado por Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Palavras-chave
Samplingevent; Observation; OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN; ANTARCTICA; MARINE MAMMALS; PINNIPED; BIOGEOGRAPHY; census count data
Contatos
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2517-3106
- Provedor Dos Metadados ●
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Cobertura Geográfica
South Shetland Island archipelago; Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island; San Telmo Islets
| Coordenadas delimitadoras | Sul Oeste [-62,47, -60,83], Norte Leste [-62, -58] |
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Cobertura Taxonômica
All pinnipeds were identified to species level.
| Espécie | Arctocephalus gazella (Antarctic fur seal) |
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Cobertura Temporal
| Data Inicial / Data final | 1959-01-01 / 2024-12-27 |
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Dados Sobre o Projeto
This project contains all known total synoptic pup counts of South Shetland Antarctic fur seals in the South Shetland Islands archipelago, including specific counts from Cape Shirreff and the San Telmo Islets.
| Título | U.S. Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program: South Shetland Antarctic fur seal pup census |
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| Identificador | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:72281 |
| Financiamento | Maintenance and continuation of this data set is funded by the NOAA Fisheries U.S. AMLR Program. Any funding information for non-AMLR counts can be found in the associated count references. |
O pessoal envolvido no projeto:
Métodos de Amostragem
This dataset consists of all known, synoptic counts of South Shetland Antarctic fur seal (SSAFS) pups. Pup counts were performed by a variety of groups, and thus users should refer to the ‘samplingProtocol’ field for the sampling protocol for each count. Since 2008, all Cape Shirreff censuses have been performed by the U.S. AMLR Program, following methods described in Krause et al. (2022).
| Área de Estudo | This dataset describes all known, synoptic counts of South Shetland Antarctic fur seal (SSAFS) pups born in the South Shetland Islands archipelago, including from Cape Shirreff (62.47° S, 60.77° W) and San Telmo Islets. |
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| Controle de Qualidade | All count records were screened for unreasonable values or duplicate entries via R code, either programmatically or visually through plots of the data. Duplicates were removed, and other data flagged by automated checks were validated using paper datasheets or scans of a technician’s field notebooks. All scientific names were checked for typo and matched to the species information backbone of Worlds Register of Marine Species (http://marinespecies.org/) and LSID were assigned to each taxa as scientificNameID. Event date and time were verified to be compliant with ISO 8601 standard. |
Descrição dos passos do método:
- The U.S. AMLR Program has conducted a synoptic census of SSAFS pups born at Cape Shirreff each year from 2008 to present. Annual pup censuses were done in late December (except 2021/22 which was completed in mid-December) when over 99% of pups were born, before pups explore widely beyond their birth beach, and before seasonal rates of pup predation increased. In each season at least three field biologists surveyed every breeding beach independently using hand-held binoculars. Counts of pups (live and dead) were independently reviewed, and recounts were conducted as necessary to ensure that all beach-specific counts were within 5% across all observers. Further method details may be found in Krause et al. (2022).
- During the 2018/19 season, the U.S. AMLR Program began conducting SSAFS censuses for the San Telmo Islets (STI) via drone, as described in Krause and Hinke (2021). Unless otherwise indicated, all subsequent STI counts were conducted in the same fashion. All previous STI counts include references describing relevant methods.
- The South Shetland Island archipelago-wide counts of SSAFS for 1991/92, 1995/96, 2001/02, 2007/08, and 2024/25 were conducted by the U.S. AMLR Program. References for all SSI-wide counts are included in the respective count records.
- All other SSAFS pup census counts were gathered via a literature review. References for these counts are included in the individual count records.
Citações bibliográficas
- Bengtson, J.L., Ferm, L.M., Härkönen, T.J., and Stewart,B.S. (1990). Abundance of Antarctic Fur Seals in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, During the 1986/87 Austral Summer. In Antarctic Ecosystems, edited by Kerry K.R. and Hempel G., 265-270. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
- Bonin, C.A., Goebel, M.E., Forcada, J., Burton, R.S. and Hoffman, J.I. (2013). Unexpected genetic differentiation between recently recolonized populations of a long-lived and highly vagile marine mammal. Ecology and Evolution 3 (11): 3701-3712. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.732
- Krause, D.J., Brownell, R.L., Jr, Bonin, C.A., Woodman, S.M., Shaftel, D. and Watters, G.M. (2024), Evaluating threats to South Shetland Antarctic fur seals amidst population collapse. Mam Rev, 54: 30-46. https://doi.org/10.1111/mam.12327
- Krause, D.J., Bonin, C.A., Goebel, M.E., Reiss, C.S., & Watters, G.M. (2022) The Rapid Population Collapse of a Key Marine Predator in the Northern Antarctic Peninsula Endangers Genetic Diversity and Resilience to Climate Change. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:796488. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.796488
- Krause, D. J., and Hinke, J. T. (2021). Finally within reach: a drone census of an important, but practically inaccessible, Antarctic fur seal colony. Aquatic Mammals, 47(4), 349-354. https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.47.4.2021.349
- Paijmans, A. J., Stoffel, M.A., Bester, M.N., Cleary, A.C, De Bruyn, P.J.N., Forcada, J., Goebel, M.E., Goldsworthy, S.D., Guinet, C., Lydersen, C., Kovacs, K.M., Lowther, A., and Hoffman, J.I. (2020). The genetic legacy of extreme exploitation in a polar vertebrate. Scientific Reports 10 (1): 5089. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61560-8
- Payne, MR. (1979). Growth in the Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella. Journal of Zoology 187 (1): 1-20.
- Thomas A. Jefferson, Marc A. Webber and Robert L. Pitman. Marine Mammals of the World: a comprehensive guide to their identification, 2nd Edition (Elsevier, 2015). https://doi.org/10.1016/C2012-0-06919-0
- https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/72281 (GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:72281)
- The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. (2023). SCAR Report 42 - September 2022 - SCAR Data Policy (2022). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7825314
Metadados Adicionais
| Identificadores alternativos | a02013f1-2eb2-4ecd-8f56-a455cbedce17 |
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| https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=usamlr-ssafs-pup-census |