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Seabird Observations, Storm Bay, Tasmania, Australia, 1991-1994
Contact: O&A Information and Data Centre, more

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Description
Survey data from 9 trips on the 52 m industrial waste dumping vessel, the Anson, from May-Sept 1994. Jarosite, a zinc processing waste product was dumped off the continental shelf southeast of Tasmania. This dataset is of seabird sightings from the northern extant of Storm bay to the dump site. Other zinc dump trips in 1988 and 1991 are in SouthEast Seabird Survey. Data published in Coarse-scale relationships between seabirds and zooplankton off south-eastern Tasmania, Timothy A. Reid and Mark A. Hindell, Mar. Freshwater Res., 2000, 51, 789–98. Additional voyages conducted by Tim Reid from 1991 to 1993 are included in this dataset.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Birds
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, PSE, Australia, Tasmania, Aves

Geographical coverage
PSE, Australia, Tasmania

Temporal coverage
9 April 1991 - 22 September 1994

Taxonomic coverage
Aves [WoRMS]

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

Contributors
Australia National University (ANU), moredata creator
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; O&A Information and Data Centre, more

Related datasets
Published in:
OBIS-Australia: Australian Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2017-01-17
Information last updated: 2017-01-17
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