Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Sea Otter Forage Data, 1993-2019

Description

These data describe observations of sea otter foraging behavior in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. Data consist of dive and surface times, success in prey retrieval, prey item, prey quantity, and size. Additionally, location of observations, and age class, sex, and pup status of the focal sea otter were also recorded.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC609.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9T6UB5G

Tags

  • environment
  • alaska
  • coastal-ecosystems
  • prey
  • animals-invertebrates
  • biota
  • wildlife
  • sea-otters
  • gulf-of-alaska
  • macroinvertebrates
  • marine-environment-monitoring
  • usgs-asc609
  • enhydra-lutris
  • animals-vertebrates
  • marine-benthic-invertebrates
  • marine-ecosystems
  • benthic-ecosystems
  • glacier-bay-national-park-and-preserve
  • marine-ecology
  • foraging-behavior
  • prey-selection

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