Sea Otter Aerial Survey Data from Western Prince William Sound, Alaska, 2017
Description
This dataset consists of three tables related to abundance and distribution of northern sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) in western Prince William Sound, Alaska, based on data collected during a series of population-wide aerial surveys in June 2017. 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
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Description |
Link |
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC417.xml |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KNKOG1 |
Tags
- environment
- alaska
- abundance-organisms
- ecology
- biota
- wildlife
- sea-otters
- marine-mammals
- ecosystem-monitoring
- prince-william-sound
- mammals
- otters
- population-dynamics
- usgs-asc417
- population-density
- spatial-distribution
- enhydra-lutris-kenyoni
- aerial-surveys
- animals-vertebrates
- carnivores
- northern-sea-otters