Walrus Haulout and In-water Activity Levels Relative to Vessel Interactions in the Chukchi Sea, 2012-2015
Description
These data were used to evaluate effects of vessel exposure on Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) behaviors. We obtained >120,000 hours of location and behavior (foraging, in-water not foraging, and hauled out) data from 218 satellite-tagged walruses and linked them to vessel locations from the marine Automated Information System. This yielded 206 vessel-exposed walrus telemetry hours for comparison to unexposed hours which we used to assess if vessel exposure altered walrus behavior.
Resources
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The metadata original format |
https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.ASC511.xml |
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Landing page for access to the data |
https://doi.org/10.5066/P9IO8AZJ |
Tags
- environment
- alaska
- telemetry
- animal-behavior
- weather
- human-impacts
- biota
- wildlife
- transportation
- marine-mammals
- mammals
- usgs-asc511
- chukchi-sea
- odobenus-rosmarus-divergens
- seals-sea-lions-walruses
- pacific-walrus
- argos
- animals-vertebrates
- carnivores
- marine-ecosystems
- foraging-behavior
- sea-ice
- satellite-transmitter