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Child Item 1: Rocky Intertidal Sea Star Size, Count, and Disease Data from Prince William Sound, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park

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Publication Date
Start Date
2006
End Date
2024
Last Revision
2024-10-01

Citation

U.S. Geological Survey - Alaska Science Center, National Park Service - Southwest Alaska Inventory and Monitoring Network, 2022. Rocky intertidal data from Prince William Sound, Katmai National Park and Preserve, and Kenai Fjords National Park (ver 3.0, October 2024): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7513WCB.

Summary

This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7513WCB. These data are part of the Gulf Watch Alaska (GWA) long-term monitoring program, nearshore monitoring component. The dataset has three comma separated values (.csv) file exported from a Microsoft Access relational database. The data consist of: 1) size and disease state of sea stars, 2) counts of sea stars, and 3) taxonomic classification. Version History: First release: September 2022 Revised: October 2023 (ver. 2.0) Revised: October 2024 (ver. 3.0)

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KATMKEFJWPWS_2006-2024_seaStar_Count.csv 159.84 KB text/csv
KATMKEFJWPWS_2006-2024_seaStar_countsSize_metadata.html 90.62 KB text/html
KATMKEFJWPWS_2006-2024_seaStar_Taxonomy.csv 1.1 KB text/csv
KATMKEFJWPWS_2020-2024_seaStar_sizeDisease.csv 155.18 KB text/csv

Purpose

These data provide sizes, counts, density, and disease state of sea stars at sites in sheltered rocky habitats. These data are used to estimate density of healthy and diseased sea stars and sea star size frequency on sheltered rocky shorelines to assess change in intertidal invertebrate communities on rocky shorelines. Sampling was conducted within regions of Alaska including: Kenai Peninsula (KEP; Kenai Fjords National Park), Alaska Peninsula (AKP; Katmai National Park and Preserve), and Prince William Sound (PWS; northern, western, and eastern Prince William Sound). Study site locations are described in the "Monitoring Site Locations" data release: https://doi.org/10.5066/F78S4N3R (Coletti et al. 2017).

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Version 3.0 by ASC Data Management on October 1, 2024. To view changes, see "versionHistory.txt" in the attached files section on the main landing page.

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