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Child Item 5: Tufted Puffin Chick Body Conditions, North Pacific and Bering Sea, 2012-2014

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2012-08-14
End Date
2014-08-22

Citation

Schoen, S.K., Heflin, B., Piatt, J.F., Arimitsu, M.L., Drew, G.S., Douglas, D.C., and Renner, M., 2018, Marine ecology near Tufted Puffin colonies across the Aleutian Archipelago and Alaska Peninsula, 2012-2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7TQ60GV.

Summary

This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7TQ60GV Data were collected to index the body condition of Tufted Puffin chicks on colonies in the North Pacific and Bering Sea during August or 2012-2014. This dataset contains information on every chick measured. Data consists of: colony name, date, wing chord (mm), mass (g), culmen (mm), tarsus (mm), body condition (mass/wing), and burrow observations. Chick body condition was only used for analyses if there were measurements from 12 or more chicks at each colony.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Originator :
Sarah K Schoen, Brielle M. Heflin, John F Piatt, Mayumi Arimitsu
Metadata Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Publisher :
Alaska Science Center
Distributor :
USGS ScienceBase Team
SDC Data Owner :
Alaska Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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TuftedPuffin_ChickConditions_NorthPacific_BeringSea_2012-2014.csv 40.86 KB text/csv
TuftedPuffin_ChickConditions_NorthPacific_BeringSea_2012-2014_metadata.html 54.08 KB text/html

Purpose

Seabirds are strongly shaped by the energetic constraints they face in supplying food to their chicks at centralized colonies while foraging for patchily distributed prey in surrounding waters. The purpose of these data are to compare chick conditions among the colonies and find how they differ with different prey availability.

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