Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) - occurrence records filtered for species distribution modelling

Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) occurrence records from continental Australia suitable for species distribution modelling.

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    Data Publication title Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) - occurrence records filtered for species distribution modelling
  • Description

    Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) occurrence records from continental Australia suitable for species distribution modelling.

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    • Descriptor

      This dataset includes observations of Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) that are sourced from the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) database. Rather than raw observations, these have been filtered such that they are assumed to be suitable for species distribution modelling exercises. The cleaning process included:

      1. automatic vetting based on the ALA's 'assertions' whereby observations were assessed as inappropriate for modelling (ie. 'ZERO_COORDINATES', 'INVALID SCIENTIFIC NAME');
      2. determining if the observations fell within expert-derived range polygons. These polygons were supplied by BirdLife Australia to represent, for each species, its core breeding habitat, non-breeding, historic, irruptive, or invasive ranges. Records that fall outside these ranges were marked as inappropriate for modelling; and
      3. human-derived classification of records after previous two assessments. Through the Edgar project (http://tropicaldatahub.org/goto/edgar), users were able to map all species observations and comment on the suitability of records for distribution modelling. This included records deemed inappropriate by other means.

        Every 6 months the occurrence record download file is updated to reflect recent vetting by experts. In the data download, sensitive records have been obfuscated by truncating the lat/long to two decimal places. Obfuscated records will be indicated in the data file. Access to the accurate data will need to be arranged with the original data owners - contact the ALA for more information.

        The resulting downloadable file of occurrence records reflects which records are suitable for species distribution modelling.

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      Data is downloadable as a zipped CSV file.

      These occurrence records are displayed on Edgar: http://tropicaldatahub.org/goto/Edgar.

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  • Data type dataset
  • Keywords
    • species occurrence records
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    Tropical Ecosystems, Conservation and Climate Change
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  • Start Date 1900/01/01
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  • Locations
    • Continental Australia
    Data Locations

    Type Location Notes
    URL http://eresearch.jcu.edu.au/tdh/datasets/Edgar/Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus)/occurrences
    Physical Location A/Prof Jeremy VanDerWal, Centre for Tropical Biodiversity & Climate Change, James Cook University, Building 145, ATSIP, James Cook University Drive, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
    The Data Manager is: Jeremy Vanderwal
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    Access conditions Open: free access under license
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    The data will be licensed under CC BY: Attribution 3.0 AU
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    Citation Vanderwal, Jeremy (2013): Macaroni Penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus) - occurrence records filtered for species distribution modelling . Centre for Tropical Biodiversity & Climate Change, James Cook University. https://research.jcu.edu.au/data/published/d42bbbac19964b176e3c158384cb676f