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Child Item 2: Resting Metabolic Rates of a Captive Adult Female Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) at the San Diego Zoo

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2017-02-05
End Date
2017-02-08

Citation

Pagano, A.M., 2018, Metabolic rate, body composition, foraging success, behavior, and GPS locations of female Polar bears (Ursus maritimus), Beaufort Sea, spring, 2014-2016 and resting energetics of an adult female Polar bear: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XW4H0P.

Summary

This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7XW4H0P This dataset contains measures of oxygen consumption from an adult female polar bear resting in a metabolic chamber.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Originator :
Anthony M Pagano
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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polarBear_restingMetabolicRate.csv 386 Bytes text/csv
polarBear_restingMetabolicRate_metadata.html 52.69 KB text/html

Purpose

These data were collected to gain insights into the energy expenditure of adult female polar bears.

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