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Wildlife mortality events in counties surrounding the Chesapeake Bay recorded in the Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership Event Reporting System (WHISPers) from 2000-2020

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2000-01-20
End Date
2020-12-06

Citation

Lankton, J.S., 2022, Wildlife mortality events in counties surrounding the Chesapeake Bay recorded in the Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership Event Reporting System (WHISPers) from 2000-2020: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ULAM7G.

Summary

This data set is composed of all events in the Wildlife Health Information Sharing Partnership Event Reporting System (WHISPers) between 1/1/2000 and 12/31/2020 from counties bordering the Chesapeake Bay. Relevant fields include WHSPers ID number, estimated number of animals affected, event start and end dates, states, counties, species involved, event diagnoses, etiological category of the primary cause/diagnosis, and whether concurrent algal blooms or toxins were reported at the time of the event. Additional information from NWHC case 24171is provided including: WHISPers event ID, case number, accession numbers, state, county, collection date, species, presence or absence of liver necrosis, and cause of death.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Julia S Lankton, U.S. Geological Survey
Originator :
Julia S Lankton
Metadata Contact :
Julia S Lankton, U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
National Wildlife Health Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Lankton_Chesapeake Bay HAB_metadata.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		17.99 KB application/fgdc+xml
Lankton_counties.csv 862 Bytes text/csv
Lankton_events.csv 31.89 KB text/csv
Lankton_mallards.csv 424 Bytes text/csv

Purpose

The data were used in a report summarizing wildlife morbidity and mortality events in the Chesapeake Bay region and any association of the events with algal blooms or toxins.

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  • National Wildlife Health Center
  • USGS Data Release Products

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9ULAM7G

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