Child Item 6: Population Plots at Two Seabird Colonies in Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska
Dates
Publication Date
2021-05-20
Start
1995
End
2021
Last Revision
2024-01-08
Citation
Arimitsu, M.L., Schoen, S.K., Piatt, J.F., and Marsteller, C.E., 2021, Assessing the status and trends of seabirds and forage fish in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska (ver. 3.0, January 2024): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P961LWWE.
Summary
This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P961LWWE This dataset consists of one table with annual counts from population plots of Black-legged Kittiwakes and Common Murres at two seabird nesting colonies on Gull and Chisik Islands in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska. Version History: First release: May 2021 Revised: June 2021 (ver. 1.1) Revised: June 2022 (ver. 2.0) Revised: January 2024 (ver. 3.0)
This dataset consists of one table with annual counts from population plots of Black-legged Kittiwakes and Common Murres at two seabird nesting colonies on Gull and Chisik Islands in lower Cook Inlet, Alaska.
Version History:
First release: May 2021
Revised: June 2021 (ver. 1.1)
Revised: June 2022 (ver. 2.0)
Revised: January 2024 (ver. 3.0)
Arimitsu, M.L., Schoen, S.K., Piatt, J.F., Marsteller, C.E., Drew, G.S. 2021. Monitoring the recovery of seabirds and forage fish following a major ecosystem disruption in Lower Cook Inlet. Anchorage, Alaska: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. OCS Study BOEM 2021-031. 50 p.
NOAA/NCCOS Kasitsna Bay Laboratory. 2020. State of Kachemak Bay. National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, NCCOS Project: Kachemak Bay Ecological Assessment. Seldovia, Alaska
These data were collected to detect changes in the breeding population of Black-legged Kittiwakes and Common Murres at two nesting colonies in lower Cook Inlet and compare those findings to baseline counts from 1995-1999.
Version 3.0 posted by ASC Data Management on January 8, 2024. To view changes, see "versionHistory.txt" in the Attached Files section on the Parent page.