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Child Item 1: Body mass, Morphological Measurements, Flock Counts, and Age-Ratios from Black Brant Overwintering in Three Lagoons Along the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1991
End Date
2013
Last Revision
2024-02-22

Citation

Ward, D.H., 2023, Data from black brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) overwintering in three lagoons along the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico (ver. 2.0, February 2024): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7T43R88.

Summary

This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7T43R88 This data package includes four tables of data from Pacific Black Brant (Branta bernicla nigricans) wintering along the Baja California Peninsula and Sonoran coasts of Mexico. The data include: (1) body mass and morphological measurements from sport hunter harvested brant, and (2) census counts of brant in Bahia de San Quintin, (3) counts for flock age ratio determination, and (4) behavior. Version History: First release: April 2023 Revised: February 2024 (ver. 2.0)

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Originator :
David H Ward
Metadata Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Publisher :
Alaska Science Center
Distributor :
USGS ScienceBase Team
SDC Data Owner :
Alaska Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

Attached Files

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versionHistory.txt 1.26 KB text/plain
blackBrant_ageRatio_baja_ward.csv 172.29 KB text/csv
blackBrant_behavior_baja_ward.csv 45.72 KB text/csv
blackBrant_bodyMeasurements_baja_ward.csv 437.89 KB text/csv
blackBrant_census_bajaBSQ_ward.csv 15.46 KB text/csv
blackBrant_locations_baja_ward.csv 3.1 KB text/csv
blackBrant_overwinter_baja_ward_metadata.html 110.57 KB text/html

Purpose

These data were collected to understand the population dynamics of Pacific Black Brant that spend the non-breeding season in Mexico.

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  • Alaska Science Center (ASC)

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Version 2.0 by ASC Data Management on February 22, 2024. To view changes, see "versionHistory.txt" in the Attached Files section.

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