Pathogen Exposure Data for Chukchi Sea Polar Bears 1988-1994 and 2008-2017

This dataset is one table with results of tests to determine exposure of Chukchi Sea polar bears to a suite of pathogens. Results are serological tests for antibodies and tests of fecal samples for presence of parasites. Serologic assays were conducted for Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, Francisella tularensis, Coxiella burnetii, Leptospira spp., Brucella canis, Brucella abortus/suis, and canine distemper virus. Parasitology analyses were conducted for presence of Giardia cysts and Cryptospiridium oocysts in fecal samples. Polar bears were sampled on sea ice in the Chukchi Sea between mid-March and early May 1987-1994 and 2008-2017. The dataset includes relevant information about the bears that were captured...

Tags: Age composition, Alaska, Animals/Vertebrates, Bacterial diseases, Bears, All tags... Beaufort Sea, Biota, Brucella, Brucella abortus, Brucella canis, Carnivores, Chukchi Sea, Coastal ecosystems, Coxiella, Coxiella burnetii, Cryptosporidium, Disease detection, Environment, Francisella, Francisella tularensis, Giardia, Health and disease, Immunology, Mammals, Marine ecosystems, Marine mammals, Neospora, Neospora caninum, Parasitic diseases, Parasitism, Pathology, Polar bear, Serology, Toxoplasma, Toxoplasma gondii, USGS:ASC567, Ursus maritimus, Viruses, Wildlife, Wildlife disease, Fewer tags

Elk movement and predicted number of brucellosis-induced abortion events in the southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (1993-2015)

Using data from 288 adult and yearling female elk that were captured on 22 winter supplemental elk feedgrounds in Wyoming and monitored with GPS collars from 2007 - 2015, we fit Step Selection Functions (SSFs) during the spring abortion season and then implemented a master equation approach to translate SSFs into predictions of daily elk distribution for five plausible winter weather scenarios (from a heavy snow, to an extreme winter drought year). We predicted elk abortion events by combining elk distributions with empirical estimates of daily abortion rates, spatially varying elk seroprevalence, and elk population counts. Here we provide 1) the adult and yearling female elk GPS collar data used to fit SSFs, 2)...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Brucella abortus, Cervus canadensis, Ecology, GPS data, Grand Teton National Park, All tags... Lincoln County, Wyoming, National Elk Refuge, Sublette County, Wyoming, Teton County, Wyoming, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife Disease, Wyoming, brucellosis, cattle risk, daily abortion risk, disease transmission, elk, movement, predictions, space use, step selection function, ungulate, Fewer tags