Mercury concentrations in western gulls along the west coast, USA, 2015-2017

Description

We investigated whether foraging habitat, sex, or fidelity to a foraging area effected blood mercury concentrations in western gulls (Larus occidentalis) from three colonies on the west coast of the United States. Dataset includes total mercury concentrations in western gulls from three colony locations and associated foraging habitat of individual gulls.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P92PFAXS
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.6046c8a4d34eb120311a4538.xml

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  • mercury
  • biota
  • wildlife
  • contaminant
  • habitats
  • pacific-ocean
  • islands
  • west-coast
  • usgs-6046c8a4d34eb120311a4538

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