San Nicolas Island California black abalone feeding observations, 1982-2019

Description

These data provide observations of food items observed held by anterior foot of black abalone (presumably for feeding) at 9 different sites in the rocky intertidal zone around San Nicolas Island, California. Observations were made at low tide while censusing the population on permanently marked transects over a 26 year time period. Also included are some associated abalone size data.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GVHC4Z
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.5ea72e8d82cefae35a1d90f2.xml

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  • marine-ecosystem
  • san-nicolas-island
  • biota
  • algae
  • usgs-5ea72e8d82cefae35a1d90f2
  • gastropod
  • kelp
  • california
  • diet
  • ventura-county
  • food-web

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