Sea Otter Aerial Survey Data from Southeast Alaska, 2002-2003

Description

This dataset consists of three tables related to abundance and distribution of northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in Southeast Alaska, based on data collected during a series of population-wide aerial surveys. The dataset consists of: (1) sea otter counts along strip transects, (2) sea otter counts in Intensive Search Unit (ISU) within the transects, and (3) Transect coordinates.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC268.xml
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PYG92B

Tags

  • environment
  • alaska
  • abundance-organisms
  • glacier-bay
  • ecology
  • biota
  • wildlife
  • sea-otters
  • marine-mammals
  • ecosystem-monitoring
  • mammals
  • otters
  • population-dynamics
  • usgs-asc268
  • population-density
  • spatial-distribution
  • enhydra-lutris-kenyoni
  • aerial-surveys
  • animals-vertebrates
  • carnivores
  • northern-sea-otters
  • southeast-alaska

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