Description
These were data collected from polar bears from the Southern Beaufort Sea during the spring between 2007 and 2014. Data include individual ID, capture date, sex and age class, whether individuals visited bowhead whale carrion sites, exposure status relative to five pathogens, and concentrations of certain persistent organic pollutants.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Original Metadata | XML | The metadata original format | Open resource |
| Digital Data | XML | Landing page for access to the data | Open resource |
Tags
- alaska
- animals-vertebrates
- bacterial-diseases
- bears
- beaufort-sea
- biota
- brucella
- carnivores
- chlorobenzene
- clbz
- coastal-ecosystems
- coxiella
- ddt
- dichlorophenyltrichloroethane
- disease-detection
- ecotoxicology
- environment
- environmental-contaminants
- francisella
- hch
- health-and-disease
- hexachlorocyclohexane
- human-impacts
- mammals
- marine-ecosystems
- marine-mammals
- neospora
- organochlorine
- parasites
- parasitic-diseases
- pcb
- polar-bear
- polychlorinated-biphenyls
- terrestrial-ecosystems
- toxoplasma
- ursus-maritimus
- usgs-asc414
- wildlife
- wildlife-food-habits