Metabolic Rate, Body Composition, and Blood Biochemistry Data from Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) on Land, Western Hudson Bay, Canada, 2019-2022

Description

This dataset is one table with specific activity measures of deuterium oxide and oxygen-18, body mass, breath oxygen consumption and carbon dioxide emission, and blood biochemistry (blood urea nitrogen and creatinine and serum progesterone) data for 20 polar bears on land near Churchill, Manitoba, Canada in 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9A7ITFH
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC576.xml

Tags

  • environment
  • coastal-ecosystems
  • metabolism
  • animal-behavior
  • canada
  • hudson-bay
  • biota
  • wildlife
  • biogeography
  • bears
  • marine-mammals
  • mammals
  • species-life-history
  • ursus-maritimus
  • usgs-asc576
  • bioenergetics
  • use-feeding-habitat
  • animals-vertebrates
  • carnivores
  • marine-ecosystems
  • polar-bear

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