Antarctic fur seal abundance at South Georgia

Data sets for the abundance analysis of Antarctic fur seal data at South Georgia. Data were obtained from helicopter surveys in 2007–09 and long-term studies at the Special Study Beach of Bird Island, South Georgia, from 1994 to 2022., Helicopter survey and hand-held digital SLR cameras. South Georgia, SW Atlantic.
Antarctic fur seal long-term demographic and genetic studies at Bird Island, South Georgia.
See manuscript for detail:
Article Title: Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South GeorgiaArticle DH_ID: 17818825Article DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16947Journal Code: GCBInstitution/Funder Name: British Antarctic Survey, Data requires R software. It has two scripts (*.r) for RStudio for fitting integrated population models (IPM) models with R and JAGS; one for female and another for male Antarctic fur seal count and mark-recapture data. The scripts reproduce the results in the the published article.
Data files for using the R scripts are in R software Rds format.
The best use of the scripts and data files is described in detail in the Readme file., # Antarctic fur seal abundance at South Georgia

Published article:
Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia

Jaume Forcada(1), Joseph I. Hoffman(2,1), Olivier Gimenez(3), Iain J. Staniland(4), Pete Bucktrout(1), Andrew G. Wood(1)

1\. British Antarctic Survey\, Natural Environment Research Council\, UKRI\, Cambridge\, UK
2\. Department of Animal Behavior\, University of Bielefeld\, Postfach 10 01 31\, 33615 Bielefeld\, Germany
3\. CEFE\, CNRS\, Univ Montpellier\, EPHE\, IRD\, Montpellier\, France
4\. International Whaling Commission\, Impington\, UK

Contact Information
Dr Jaume Forcada; tel. [phone]; Email: [e-mail]; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2115-0150

## Description of the data and file structure

Data and R script files:

1\. 'SouthGeorgiaSurveyCounts\.csv'
Aerial photo-counts of pups, breeding females and territorial males of Antarctic fur seal at South Georgia. There are...