SAMPLING SITES

Sites within the Integrated Study Regions at which monitoring of predators has been or should be initiated now.
 

Site

Species

Critical Period

1. antarctic peninsula region

 

 

Anvers Island (Palmer Archipelago)

 

 

            (south coast)

Adélie penguin

November–January

Livingston Island (S. Shetland Is)

 

 

            (north coast)

Chinstrap penguin

November–February

 

Gentoo penguin

November–February

                       

Antarctic fur seal

December–March

King George Island (S. Shetland Is)

 

 

            (north ? and south coasts)

Adélie penguin

October–January

            (north and south coasts)

Chinstrap penguin

November–February

 

Gentoo penguin

November–February

            (north coast)

Antarctic fur seal

December–March

Elephant Island (S. Shetland Is)

 

 

            (west coast)

Chinstrap penguin

November–February

 

Gentoo penguin

November–February

 

Macaroni penguin

December–February

 

Cape petrel

December–February

Seal Island (S. Shetland Is)

Chinstrap penguin

November–February

 

Macaroni penguin

December–February

 

Antarctic fur seal

December–March

 

Cape petrel

December–February

Sea-ice areas

Crabeater seal*

January–December

 

 

 

2. south georgia region

 

 

            Bird Island

Fur seal

December–March

 

Macaroni penguin

December–February

 

Gentoo penguin

October–February

 

Black–browed albatross

October–April

 

 

 

3. prydz bay region

 

 

            Mac. Robertson Land

Adélie penguin

October–January

 

Antarctic petrel

November–February

            Sea-ice areas

Crabeater seal*

January–December

* Species for which standard methods have not yet been developed.

 

Network sites selected or suggested for monitoring studies to complement the programs in the three main Integrated Study Regions.
 

Species

            Sites

Adélie penguin

Northwestern Ross Sea (Cape Hallett and Cape Adare)

 

            Budd Coast*

 

            Edmonson Point ?

 

            Ross Island  ?

 

            Ongul Islands (near Syowa Station)

 

            Shepard Island*

 

            Signy Island, South Orkney Islands

 

            Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands

 

 

Chinstrap penguin

            Signy Island, South Orkney Islands

 

            South Sandwich Islands*

 

            Bouvet Island

 

 

Gentoo penguin

            Signy Island, South Orkney Islands

 

            Marion Island

 

 

Macaroni penguin

            Bouvet Island

 

            Kerguelen Island*

 

            Marion Island

 

 

Antarctic petrel

            Svarthamaren (Queen Maud Land)*

 

 

Cape petrel

            Signy Island, South Orkney Islands

 

            Bouvet Island

 

            Rauer Islands (near Davis Station)

 

            Elephant Island (South Shetland Islands)

 

 

Antarctic fur seal

            Bouvet Island

 

            Kerguelen Island

 

 

Crabeater seal

            Weddell Sea*

 

            Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas*

* Suggested sites