Data Used to Assess the Acute Physiological Response of Polar Bears to Helicopter Capture
Description
This dataset is in five tables with data from ecophysiological studies of free-ranging polar bears of the Southern Beaufort Sea subpopulation. They were equipped with high-resolution activity sensors, body temperature loggers, and GPS satellite-telemetry collars, to compare physiological state and activity of bears during natural behavior with that experienced by bears during helicopter recapture events (n = 14 bears). The data include: rectal temperatures for comparison to temperatures recorded by implanted loggers, levels of blood biochemical markers (n = 50 bears) related to elevated body temperature and stress for testing whether these markers were influenced by the duration of helicopter operations, ambient temperature, and dose of the immobilization drug.
Resources
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Link |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OKOCN1 |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC447.xml |
Tags
- environment
- alaska
- telemetry
- beaufort-sea
- metabolism
- mammalian-physiology
- biological-response
- biota
- wildlife
- bears
- mammals
- biochemistry
- ursus-maritimus
- animal-response
- animals-vertebrates
- biochemical-analysis
- anatomy-and-physiology
- marine-ecosystems
- polar-bear
- biochemical-composition
- biochemical-marker
- body-temperature-changes
- usgs-asc447
- immobilization