Southern Beaufort Sea Polar Bear Hemoglobin A1c Data

Description

This dataset is one table with demographic, morphometric, and blood analyte measurements from whole blood and serum samples taken from a subset of polar bears sampled in Alaska's southern Beaufort Sea during 1989-2012. The measured blood analytes include: blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, glucose, total protein, hemoglobin, red blood cell count, packed cell volume, and hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c).

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P13L7N7J
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.67a68d01d34e329fb2039866.xml

Tags

  • environment
  • alaska
  • biomarkers
  • coastal-ecosystems
  • threatened-species
  • beaufort-sea
  • biota
  • blood-analytes
  • wildlife
  • reproductive-success
  • bears
  • marine-mammals
  • mammals
  • usgs-67a68d01d34e329fb2039866
  • species-life-history
  • ursus-maritimus
  • denning-behavior
  • hemoglobin-a1c
  • animals-vertebrates
  • carnivores
  • marine-ecosystems
  • polar-bear
  • hba1c

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