Data were collected and made available by Dr. Kristen Gorman and the Palmer Station, Antarctica LTER, a member of the Long Term Ecological Research Network.
Thank you to Dr. Gorman, Palmer Station LTER and the LTER Network! Special thanks to Marty Downs (Director, LTER Network Office) for help regarding the data license & use.
Data are available by CC-0 license in accordance with the Palmer Station LTER Data Policy and the LTER Data Access Policy for Type I data.
Please cite this data using: Gorman KB, Williams TD, Fraser WR (2014) Ecological Sexual Dimorphism and Environmental Variability within a Community of Antarctic Penguins (Genus Pygoscelis). PLoS ONE 9(3): e90081. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0090081
penguins_size.csv: Simplified data from original penguin data sets. Contains variables:
species: penguin species (Chinstrap, Adélie, or Gentoo)culmen_length_mm: culmen length (mm)culmen_depth_mm: culmen depth (mm)flipper_length_mm: flipper length (mm)body_mass_g: body mass (g)island: island name (Dream, Torgersen, or Biscoe) in the Palmer Archipelago (Antarctica)sex: penguin sex