At Heard Island, Southern Indian Ocean, seals were branded between 1949-1953. Seal length was measured in feet and inches. Recaptures of seals were made up until 1955, and growth and age-specific survival was calculated.

Citation

See metadata record http://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=AMD/AU/Tags_heard_1949

Published

January 20, 2015 at 03:08

First registration

June 24, 2020 at 15:02

URL

https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/resource?r=ellie_sightings_heard

Archive

https://data.aad.gov.au/ipt/archive.do?r=ellie_sightings_heard

Contacts

Ben Raymond
Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Harry Burton

1,794

total submitted occurrences

1,794

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
eventDate	1,794	100.0%
occurrenceStatus	1,794	100.0%
scientificNameID	1,794	100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
ON_LAND		18	1.0%

Elephant Seal Sightings, Heard Island

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data