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Intertidal Soft-Sediment Bivalves from Prince William Sound, Kachemak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park

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Publication Date
Start Date
2007
End Date
2023

Citation

U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center, National Park Service - Southwest Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network, and University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2018, Intertidal soft-sediment bivalves from Prince William Sound, Kachemak Bay, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park (ver 3.0, October 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71834N0

Summary

These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA) long-term monitoring program and describe bivalve count and size sampling and observations conducted at intertidal soft-sediment sampling sites in the northern Gulf of Alaska. This dataset consists of five comma separated files (.csv): 1) bivalve taxonomy table, 2) bivalve sampling site table, 3) bivalve count table, 4) bivalve size table, and 5) list of Gulf Watch Alaska principal investigators and collaborators.

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Point of Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center
Originator :
U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center, National Park Service - Southwest Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center

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KBAYKATMKEFJWPWS_2007-2023_Soft_Sediment_Bivalve_metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		71.35 KB application/fgdc+xml
gulfWatch_softSedimentBivalve.zip 202.46 KB application/zip
KBAYKATMKEFJWPWS_2007-2023_Soft_Sediment_Bivalve_metadata.html 155.06 KB text/html

Purpose

The purpose of this long-term project is to assess change in intertidal bivalve communities on mixed sediment beaches. These data are also used to assess changes in abundance, size distribution, and growth rate of larger bivalve species. Sampling was conducted within regions of Alaska including: Kenai Peninsula (KEP; Kenai Fjords National Park), Kachemak Bay (KBAY), Alaska Peninsula (AKP; Katmai National Park and Preserve), and Prince William Sound (PWS; northern, western, and eastern Prince William Sound). Study site locations are described in the "Monitoring Site Locations" data release: https://doi.org/10.5066/F78S4N3R (Coletti et al. 2017).

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