Rocky Intertidal Sea Star Size, Count, and Disease Data from Prince William Sound, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park

Description

This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7513WCB. These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA) long-term monitoring program, nearshore monitoring component. The dataset has three comma separated values (.csv) file exported from a Microsoft Access relational database. The data consist of: 1) size and disease state of sea stars, 2) counts of sea stars, and 3) taxonomic classification.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC486.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/F7513WCB

Tags

  • environment
  • alaska
  • intertidal-environments
  • echinoderms
  • nearshore-ecology
  • animals-invertebrates
  • biota
  • gulf-of-alaska
  • sea-star
  • ecosystem-monitoring
  • prince-william-sound
  • community-ecology
  • intertidal-zone
  • kenai-fjords-national-park
  • usgs-asc486
  • biospheric-indicators
  • katmai-national-park-and-preserve
  • marine-invertebrates
  • marine-ecosystems
  • alaska-peninsula
  • aquatic-ecosystems

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