Multistate Capture and Search Data from the Southern Beaufort Sea Polar Bear Subpopulation in Alaska, 2001-2016

Description

This data release contains two tables of information on polar bear distributions in the southern Beaufort Sea during spring, from 2001 to 2016. One table provides location (classified into 5 broad regions) of individual bears during the spring. The other table presents the aerial search effort by year and area.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9A9E5UP
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC273.xml

Tags

  • environment
  • alaska
  • threatened-species
  • spatial-analysis
  • platform-transmitter-terminal
  • beaufort-sea
  • biota
  • wildlife
  • bears
  • argos-system
  • marine-mammals
  • mammals
  • cryosphere
  • capture-recapture-studies
  • ursus-maritimus
  • spatial-distribution
  • usgs-asc273
  • animal-tracking
  • aerial-surveys
  • animals-vertebrates
  • polar-bears
  • satellite-telemetry
  • carnivores
  • marine-ecosystems
  • biological-informatics
  • geospatial-analysis
  • ptt

Topics

  • Climate

Categories

  • Arctic
  • Permafrost and Arctic Landscapes
  • Arctic Peoples and Ecosystems
  • Arctic Ocean, Sea Ice and Coasts